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).
Clarifying car registration figures, noting an error in previous data and difficulties in obtaining specific make information.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 128\1\ scan0294 | |
| Date | 4th December 1937 | |
| Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} 1104 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}1/AP.4.12.37. CAR SALES We send you herewith figures for car registrations obtained from the S.M.M.T. We regret that the first figures were, as we suggested in Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}' office, four times too high as monthly returns had been taken for weekly ones. From the Olympia catalogues we can only find the cars shown at each horse power. We are endeavouring to obtain registrations of actual makes but doubt if this can be done even by 'back door' methods. With regard to the 27 HP. cars we have elicited from Pass & Joyce that 270 of these in 1937 were Chevrolets. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||