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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).
Letter regarding the relocation of a customer's Phantom III from Paris to Biarritz for safety during the German advance in France.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 143\2\  scan0008
Date  8th July 1940
  
1204

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/VA.6/JMS.

8.7.40.

Messrs. Hooper & Co. Ltd.,
54, St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} James's Street,
LONDON, S.W.

Dear Sirs,

Phantom III.
Mr. Hamilton Rice.

Will you please inform the above owner that his car, which had been left at the French Repair Depot:
25, rue Gide,
Levallois,

was taken by us for safety (when the Germans were getting near to Paris) to our Biarritz Repair Shop:
Garage du Parc,
rue Lahouze,
Biarritz,

and left in charge of Mr. de Boeck.

Yours faithfully,

for Rolls Royce Ltd.
  
  


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