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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).
Letter from O.D. Cars Ltd. proposing the use of their patented inventions on a new model small car.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 23\2\  Scan025
Date  21th November 1921
  
CUSTOMERS' CARS DRIVEN BY OUR STAFF ARE AT OWNERS' RISK.
TELEGRAMS - "ODCAR, BELFAST."
TELEPHONE - BELFAST, 1044.

O.D. CARS, LTD.
BELFAST.

HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS:-
DUNMORE,
ANTRIM ROAD,
BELFAST.

DIRECTORS:-
J.A. MCKEE.
S.S. PORRITT.
F.S. EVES.
F.H. MACLEAN.
I. BURNSIDE.

Our Ref. 11
Your Ref.

[STAMP: CONFIDENTIAL]
[STAMP: RECEIVED]

21st November, 1921.

[Handwritten: HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}]

Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd.,
Nightengale Road,
D E R B Y.

For attention of Mr. Hives

Dear Sirs,

Further to our conversation with your Mr. Hives at Olympia, the following is a brief history of this Company:-

The Company was formed in 1919 to design a car on the lines of the Fergus car, of which particulars published in "The Autocar" of October 1915 attracted world wide attention and favourable comment.

The staff engaged on the design of the original Fergus again took up the work in 1919, the design being modified in several particulars, chiefly a 6 cylinder instead of 4. The drawings, patterns and one chassis were completed.

It was the intention of the Directors when tests were completed to their satisfaction to form a large Company and proceed to manufacture. Before this time arrived the slump in trade, and especially in the motor trade, convinced the directors that however attractive the product it would be useless to attempt to ask the public for the necessary capital, so that for the present at least we cannot put the car on the market.

Our object in bringing the matter to your notice is to ask you to consider using some of our inventions on the new model small car which we have heard indirectly you are about to manufacture. We enclose details of various inventions which we have patented in connection with motor chassis. These inventions are the result of close observation of many makes of chassis which we have repaired and extend over a period of about
  
  


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