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).
Arranging a parallel car demonstration with a Lincoln for Ford's manager and chief engineers from Detroit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\2\ scan0014 | |
| Date | 31th August 1933 | |
| x3929. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}..from PN{Mr Northey} PN.{Mr Northey}2/WT31.8.33. I have spoken to Mr. Mackintosh who is the Ford Manager in Regent Street, and he will be pleased to call here to-morrow morning at 9.30 with a Lincoln car which can go down to Dagenham in parallel with your R.{Sir Henry Royce} R.{Sir Henry Royce} car. You will be able to chop and change from one to another as you wish. I understand that one of their Chief Engineers from Detroit is over here and will also be going down to-morrow at the same time and will be very glad to have a run in a R.R. car. I hope that your car will not be of too "advanced" a nature. PN.{Mr Northey} | ||