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).
Requesting an analysis of the pre-war running costs for the Chassis Division's Engineering Department.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\2\ scan0318 | |
| Date | 23th December 1943 | |
| 1260 To: WG.{Mr Gill - Financial Director} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Chassis Confidential. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 3/h.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} 23.12.43. I want to try and obtain a picture of the average cost of running the Engineering Department of the Chassis Division in pre-war days. I have a lot of figures, but I do not quite now how they are arrived at - that is, whether the labour carries any overheads at all and whether any depreciation is debited for machine tools and plant. I also know that no salaries were included. From the available d..ta, is it possible to produce any clearer icture of the total engineering expenses? Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} (Transcribed in the absence of Mr. Robotham.) | ||