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 of acceptance for an offer of employment, including a request for start time and lodging suggestions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 169\2\ img016 | |
| Date | 14th June 1920 | |
| Your ref. EFC3/T Messrs Rolls Royce Ltd. Dear Sirs, Your letter of the 10th inst, to hand to-day, for which I thank you. I have pleasure in accepting your offer, and will be in attendance on Monday June 21st. In the meantime, I should be glad if you will kindly inform me, at what time you wish me to start. If it is possible at the same time to give any suggestion as to where I might find lodgings I should be very grateful. I feel confident that after a little experience at the work I am taking up, I shall give you every satisfaction. Yours faithfully, Francis J Allen. [Stamp Text] RECEIVED 14 JUN 1920 | ||