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).
Coded cablegram from Rolls-Royce of America to Derby regarding production delays and potential reputational damage.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 50\3\ Scan149 | |
| Date | 11th August 1921 | |
| 39389 CABLEGRAM ROLLS-ROYCE OF AMERICA, INC. 707 CITY REALTY BUILDING SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Copies;...Olley Nadin Beaver C. Johnson DATE August 11, 1921 Telegraph Company Please transmit the following message: POSTAL To Roycar, Derby, England. IVVEVSOAHY OZDUPSOBLE PALSAGAXES PANJESLUOR EKGYBISKFY PAJUGKUERD OUPBELANGA ISHDSFLONO IVUTYXAA YUBLIOEPJA AIXIMPAJUG AJGAXBOUVS PLOBOAHDGY GYOJA PAJUGMEHUT IVJIGDIHME PAYURINTIS GEREK falling quality gasoline AIXINOJJOB IODSAGLACH YODSANHETA CYKAJPOPTI irreparably Rollsroyce. Handwritten note: Copy Sent to JHS IVVEVSOAHY...No. 129 OZDUPSOBLE...With reference to your telegram 343 PALSAGAXES...weather is cold here PANJESLUOR...in about six weeks EKGYBISKFY...if drawings are not sent in about a month PAJUGKUERD...We cannot be prepared OUPBELANGA...to produce ISHDSFLONO...for three months from IVUTYXAA...now (stop) YUBLIOEPJA...This very serious matter AIXIMPAJUG...and we AJGAXBOUVS...anticipate complaints PLOBOAHDGY...from all GYOJA...customers. PAJUGMEHUT...We have received IVJIGDIHME...nothing definite PAYURINTIS...which will meet NO CHARGE continued AIXINOJJOB...and if situation is not IODSAGLACH...met immediately YODSANHETA...our reputation CYKAJPOPTI...will be damaged further irreparably. ROLLS-ROYCE OF AMERICA, INC. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. CONFIRMATION COPY | ||