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 from Norton Motors Ltd. regarding the purchase of one of their motorcycle engines and arranging a meeting.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 133\2\ scan0027 | |
| Date | 8th June 1934 | |
| PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE FIRM & NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. Norton Motors Ltd. TELEPHONES ASTON CROSS 0776, 0777, 0778. TELEGRAMS "NORTOMO, BIRMINGHAM" A.B.C. CODE 5TH EDITION. BRACEBRIDGE ST, BIRMINGHAM, 6. OUR REF. CGS/HH YOUR REF. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}14/KW 8th June 1934 Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Experimental Department, DERBY. Dear Sirs, We are obliged by receipt of your esteemed communication of the 7th instant, in regard to your purchase of one of our motor cycle engines. The writer had intended seeing you, but owing to our Tourist Trophy Race activities has been prevented from doing so and will not now be able to see you until some time during the week commencing the 18th. If you are, therefore, anxious to get the question of an engine settled prior to this, we shall be quite pleased to discuss the matter with you here if you would be good enough to give us a day's notice of when you intend coming along. Either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of next week will be quite suitable to the writer. Yours faithfully, p.p. NORTON MOTORS LIMITED. DIRECTOR. | ||