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).
Marston Mark III radiator matrix order and a request to issue the official purchase order post-completion.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\2\ scan0147 | |
| Date | 25th April 1933 | |
| X4816 ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/MS. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}8/KT.25.4.33. We ordered in Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}15/KT.3.3.33. one Marston Mark III radiator matrix, from John Marston Ltd., to be supplied and fitted into our radiator shell to Drg. E.81407. The radiator shell parts were sent off on 6.3.33. under cover of RIC/EM.3/MS.6.3.33. and the complete radiator was received back again on 20.3.33. This radiator was ordered for Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}'s new car 104-MY. under O/54102. We omitted to ask you to send an official order for this work, will you please arrange for this to be cleared up. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||