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 India Tyre & Rubber Company to W.A. Rowbotham discussing a recent trip, a new job role, and arranging a meeting.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 29\4\ Scan179 | |
| Date | 21th March 1934 | |
| X4462 HEAD OFFICE AND FACTORY: INCHINNAN, RENFREWSHIRE INDIA TYRE & RUBBER COMPANY (GREAT BRITAIN) LTD. MILEAGE DEPARTMENT (AREA "B") 80 CLAPHAM ROAD LONDON, S.W.9 TELEPHONES: RELIANCE 2862/3 OUR REF. R/WBT. YOUR REF. 21st March, 1934. PRIVATE. W.A. ROWBOTHAM, ESQ., Experimental Department, Messrs. Rolls Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Rowbotham, I wonder if you have returned from your trip to America ? If so, I am afraid you must have had a very bad crossing on your way back. Anyhow, I hope the trip was a successful one. As you will see from this paper, I am now at our London Mileage depot, and they have made me "Area Sales Manager", "Mileage Department", but I still look after a few of my old accounts, of which yours is one. So please do not think that my new job means any alteration as regards Messrs. Rolls Royce or Bentley. I am always at your service exactly as before. I hope to spend Easter up in Yorkshire; and I was wondering if I called at Derby on my way back to London about April 3,4,5 or 6 if there would be any chance of my seeing you, or if that doesn't suit perhaps you could suggest what other date would be more convenient. I should very much like to hear about your trip; and there are one or two things I should like to talk to you about. And I also want, if possible, to see Mr. Royce for a moment. Did you read of Mr. Ward's and Mr. Park's successes at the Bournemouth Rally in a Rolls and a Bentley ? They seemed to have done extremely well. I expect you are very glad to be back home again. I always think that the best part of going Abroad is returning, but perhaps that is because I am an "Insular Scot". Yours sincerely, Rothes_ | ||