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).
Urgent memo regarding customs papers for Sir Henry Royce's car, chassis 26-EX, destined for Biarritz.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\1\ Scan043 | |
| Date | 18th August 1930 | |
| Works (Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}) URGENT X7120 Whr{Mr Wheeler}/Mac{Mr Macintosh}/13/LAM.18.8.30. re 26-EX. Sir Henry Royce. We do not appear to have received an acknowledgment of our memo: Whr{Mr Wheeler}/Mac.{Mr Macintosh}5/D of the 12th instant, and as this car is expected to be ready for delivery to us at the end of the present week, and we are anxious to send it over to Sa. at Biarritz as quickly as possible, we shall be glad to know what steps are being taken with regard to the Customs Papers. Are you attending to this, or do you wish us to do so. The car has again been inspected this afternoon by C., Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}, Mr. Munro, and the writer, and all is going as well as can be expected. Whr{Mr Wheeler}/Mac.{Mr Macintosh} | ||