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).
Telegram confirmation clarifying the completion date for a customer's car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\5\ scan0125 | |
| Date | 24th December 1940 | |
| [Handwritten top right in pencil] 261(s) [Handwritten in red ink] Customers cars S/W Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} ...from C. re B-V.{VIENNA} C4/C24.12.40. I confirm my telegram of yesterday reading as follows:- "Trying finish Breedons car first week January." Actually this should have read "end of first week in January." C. [A large red initial/mark is signed over the text 'telegram of yesterday'] | ||