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 concerning a trip to America to sell Bentleys and a request for employment assistance for an acquaintance.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 169\2\ img123 | |
| Date | 9th April 1934 | |
| X1031 / TELEGRAMS: SUMMERS,CHESTER TELEPHONE 200 CONNAH'S QUAY (10 LINES) JOHN SUMMERS & SONS, LIMITED. MANUFACTURERS OF GALVANIZED CORRUGATED AND PLAIN STEEL SHEETS, &c LONDON OFFICE: 134, LIME STREET E.C. GLOBE (ROSYTH) WORKS: STALYBRIDGE. LIVERPOOL OFFICE: 14, CHAPEL STREET. MANCHESTER OFFICE: 33, BRAZENNOSE STREET. ALL QUOTATIONS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED ARE SUBJECT TO REPLY BY RETURN OF POST. REFERENCE G.S./M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Hawarden Bridge Steel Works, Shotton, Chester. 9th. April, 1934 W. A.{Mr Adams} Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Limited, Nightingale Road, D E R B Y. Dear Bill, I am glad to hear you are safely back from your trip to the States, and I much appreciated your letter and post-card. I got the impression from your letter that you were out there trying to sell Bentleys; I imagine that the Americans as a race would fail to be impressed by its finer points. I have not got my car yet, but hope to get it at the end of this week or early next week. I shall then take an early opportunity of writing down all the complaints, and calling on you personally in Derby to rub them in!! Do you remember a few weeks before you sailed for America, I wrote to you about a man named J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Barnes, who was at School and at the 'Varsity with me, and who fell on evil days and has been for the last 18 months or so existing on the Dole? He was for a short time a labourer in your Works, and then went to the British Celanese to some sort of clerical job. I asked you if you would have a word with your Employment Department, and give him an interview to see if anything could be found for him. I think you must have overlooked the matter, because you never mentioned it to me. I hate bothering anybody about this sort of thing, as from my experience here I know how terribly difficult it is to find work for even the most deserving of the unemployed. I had another letter a few days ago from this man, and I have got a kind of impression that he is in a very bad way; his health never was good, and I rather gather that he is suffering from real want. I have promised as soon as I come down to Derby to look him up, but | ||