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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).
Financial summary detailing the costs for establishing a works, including building, materials, and labor, along with projected sales and profit.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 74\1\  scan0009
Date  3rd December 1908
  
SUMMARY.
[Handwritten, top right, crossed out]: 2940/H218
£. s. d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}
Ground required - about 5,500 sq. yards.
Cost of building - 3,300 sq. yards, at £3 per sq. yard (including paving, lighting and heat installation, shafting and motors) and also including partitions inside building. 10,600. 0. 0.
[Handwritten]: 333 sq yds
Timber Sheds - 3,000 sq. ft. at £1 per yard. 330. 0. 0.
Plant, Machinery and Loose Tools 2,266. 0. 0.
Materials - Wood, iron, metals, leather, paints, cloth and sundries 3,995. 0. 0.
Number of men required - 95.
Wages per annum 7,482. 0. 0.
[Handwritten]: 7500 880 8380
Clerical Staff and Managers - 7.
Salaries per annum. £848. 0. 0.
Gross Cost of 100 Bodies, and extras 14,566. 13. 6.
Sale of 100 bodies at 25% below Barker's retail prices 15,022. 10. 0.
Extras as per statement 2,012. 10. 0.
Total Sales 17,035. 0. 0.
Capital required.
Capital expenditure 17,191. 0. 0.
Working Capital 6,836. 0. 0.
24,027. 0. 0.
Estimated Yearly Expenditure 14,566. 0. 0.
Estimated Profit on Capital 10% per ann.
[Handwritten, bottom left]: What will these Cost?
[Handwritten, bottom right]: G.K. Lockington
Holt Bros
Greenhill Park
Harlesden N.W.
3rd Decr 1908
  
  


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