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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).
Secret memo forwarding an instruction to build six experimental chassis instead of one for testing purposes.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 69\2\  scan0087
Date  27th June 1924
  
X8770
SECRET.
To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} - from Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}
"Mr.Coverley"
Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}8/M27/6/24.

E.A.C.II.

I give you below copy of a note I have today received from Mr.Cowen.

Will you please carry out this instruction?

COPY.

" With reference to the experimental chassis which is to be
" ready about the end of August, CJ. asks me to write you to
" give instructions for six of these to be built at once
" instead of one, so that they may all be put on the 10,000
" miles experimental test at the same time, with a view to
" getting into definite production at the earliest possible
" date. - C. "

[Signature]
  
  


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