From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Letter to the Royal Automobile Club regarding a customs issue with a Triptyque for a Phantom III car at the Spanish border.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\1\ scan0293 | |
| Date | 25th May 1936 | |
| x300a 39 Exptl. Dept. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}18/KW. 25th May, 1936. The Secretary, The Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, LONDON, S.W.1. Dear Sir, Phantom III Chassis No. 32-EX. During my recent tour in Spain on this car I had a certain amount of difficulty with the Customs at the frontier between Spain and France at Irun, which is between Biarritz and San Sebastian. The trouble occurred because the Spanish Government official used a pair of scissors to remove the entry portion of the Triptyque and inadvertently cut off two portions instead of one. On coming out of the country, therefore, the exit slip was available for the Spanish authorities, but the French people were faced with having only the exit slip on the next sheet. They got very alarmed about this and said that as the Spanish Customs people had two entrance slips in their possession and only one exit slip, they would insist that the car was still in Spain. As, however, the counterfoil in the Triptyque holder itself had been stamped in and out by the Spanish Customs people, and the one where they inadvertently removed the slip had not been stamped at all, I could not see that there was any cause for alarm. The Triptyque holder, however, remains with this half slip in the book, the French people having used the next page. In case there is any question with the Spanish authorities I am putting the matter before you, as if found to be imperative it would be possible for the car to be driven to Irun to be presented to them, should they insist that it was still somewhere in Spain. Yours faithfully, | ||