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).
Urgent request for Prestone anti-freeze for a car undergoing testing in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 151\3\ scan0154 | |
| Date | 9th November 1931 | |
| X1435. Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/AD9.11.31. ANTI-FREEZING MIXTURE. We require some Prestone for use on the car at present running 10,000 miles in France. We should be glad if you could arrange with the manufacturers to despatch three gallons of Prestone to C.W.Hancock, Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. This is urgently required. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||