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Letter of appreciation following a works visit, discussing a confidential proposal for a small petrol injection engine.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 158\3\  scan0054
Date  6th March 1940
  
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ASSOCIATED COMPANY: SIR W. G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} ARMSTRONG WHITWORTH & CO. (ENGINEERS) LTD.
ARMSTRONG WHITWORTH SECURITIES COMPANY LIMITED
KADENACY DEPARTMENT.

TELEPHONE:
SLOUGH 20295/6
TELEGRAMS:
KADENG, SLOUGH

BUCKINGHAM AVENUE,
TRADING ESTATE,
SLOUGH, BUCKS.

6th March, 1940.

F. {Mr Friese} Rowbotham, Esq,
Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd,
DERBY.

Dear Rowbotham:

This is just a line to express my appreciation for my reception at the Works yesterday, and to assure you that I am keeping the subject matter of the proposition I put forward in connection with a small petrol injection engine very confidential until I see you again I shall not put it before my people here, but I shall carry out a test on the Junker to see if we can make it idle at 300 r.p.m. I feel very optimistic that a very fine engine can be produced.

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Sammons.

HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /UK.
  
  
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).


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