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).
Need for the Experimental Department to use the Order Office when communicating with suppliers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\4\ Scan280 | |
| Date | 11th January 1932 | |
| Copy of Memo. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} ROY{Sir Henry Royce}2/MG11.1.32 There seems to be a growing tendency for members of the Experimental Department to communicate direct with suppliers, giving them instructions to deliver goods to these Works etc. I know there are special cases where this is necessary, but I can only tell you it is causing considerable inconvenience, both to the suppliers themselves and the Order Office. If arrangements could be made that such instructions go through the proper channel, i.e., the Order Office, it would materially assist us. We have a typical example this morning. The Experimental Shop requisitioned on the 4th instant (Ref: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWB/LO/KT) Six Canadian pattern Covers and Tubes, and the Dunlop Company advise this morning their Development Department had instructions to deliver 8 and have already done so. Please advise, and if the latter figure is correct let us have a formal requisition. ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} [STAMP: RECEIVED 11 MAR 1932] [STAMP: ENCLOSURE Nº 357] | ||