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The required output and delivery schedule for 40/50 HP chassis.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 69\3\  scan0107
Date  1st March 1925
  
SECRET.

[Handwritten annotation on left: Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} with a line pointing to the line 'to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from CJ.']

[Routing Slip:]
[Text crossed out: To Hsr. from BJ]
to B.J. from CJ
to P. from CJ
To C. from CJ
to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from CJ.
to BY from CJ

[Handwritten number top center: X8770]

Output of 40/50 HP Chassis Required.

1. We shall in the current year invoice 'G' Chassis to the number of................... 167

2. Last year we invoiced a total of 40/50 chassis to the number of................... 452

3. This year Works must deliver to London by 24th October EAC chassis as follows:
(a) Ordinary output on last year's basis................285
(b) Trials & demonstration cars........ 20
(c) For Olympia........................... 8
(d) To meet special run of orders for new type 20s say...............60
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575
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1st April to 24 October 29 weeks

say 15 a week.

CJ.
  
  
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).


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