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).
Confirming a telephone conversation and requesting a set of number plates with specific shapes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\4\ scan0269 | |
| Date | 8th June 1939 | |
| 1259. To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to G/JWH. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}4/JH.8.6.39. Confirming our telephone conversation with Mr. Simpson, will you please obtain a set of Homo number plates to RC.{R. Childs}7477. The rear to be square and the front oblong. O/N.52444. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} | ||