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).
Letter to F.L. Manning of Barker & Co. regarding an unsolicited invention from a mutual acquaintance.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\2\ Scan331 | |
| Date | 25th February 1935 | |
| 41775 Exptl: Dept. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}17/KW. 25th February, 1935. F.L. Manning, Esq., Messrs. Barker & Co. (Coachbuilders) Ltd., 66, South Audley Street, London, W.1. Dear Manning, I have had a letter from a friend of yours, namely, John Williams, who apparently has invented something for nothing. I should hate to think that he has spent a day coming up here to explain something in which probably we have no interest. Could you therefore tactfully, and as a friend of his, suggest that if there really is anything in his idea he should send us drawings or give us a demonstration on the actual car. I have not written him myself, as I think you can probably give him a more tactful reply to his letter than I can. I hope your friends who arrived in the loaned Bentley the other day will approve of their 40/50. They had an excellent appetite and appeared to enjoy seeing round the Works. Yours sincerely, | ||