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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
  
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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,
  
  


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