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 discussing the acquisition of a 1934 Bentley and a Frazer Nash, with a handwritten note about a BMW.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\3\ scan0121 | |
| Date | 1st April 1941 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex DEPOTS, LONDON - MANCHESTER - GLASGOW TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. 5 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS DAGENITE, SOWEST, LONDON. Manufacturers of Accumulators for over 50 years. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON. S.W.1. YOUR REF. OUR REF. M/5. 1st Spríl, 1941. W.A. Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Robotham, I find yours of the 26th ult. on my return from the Midlands. I have not heard anything about your prospective customer. I have done a deal and got a 1934 Bentley so I am in a position to deal without any provisos. I note you are going to pick up the Frazer Nash and I expect you will end in keeping it, if not the Firm, someone else because you will find it a very super little car. I took my other one to the Midlands. It was driven by all sorts of people like Ernest Siddeley, all very thrilled with it and all said if only Rolls-Royce would make such a thing as this! Yours sincerely, G.R.N.Minchin If you don't keep the BMW too long & then didn't want it, I think Guy Knowles might buy it. He knows that it may be held up with you for a bit. | ||