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).
Correspondence regarding car clearance paper issues, steering test results, and personnel arrangements in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\4\ scan0295 | |
| Date | 10th July 1925 | |
| X.S940 Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre. France. GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}I/Crn.10.7.25. To: "HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}" From: G.W.Hancock. We have received your letter dated the 18th inst., and have duly noted the trouble experienced at Folkestone with 9 G.III. As far as the papers concerned re this side, we were all in order. The trouble has apparently arisen through the London Transport Co. not giving me a copy of the clearance papers. This was not an oversight on my part, as I asked them for these, and stated that I ought to have them, but I was told that I could not have the papers as they were sent through their general routine course up to London. The transport company at this side should have instructed the company in London to send the clearance papers to what port they were shipping the car to, and it must have been solely either their misunderstanding or not realising the necessity of the clearance papers being there that caused the trouble. As a matter of fact the transport company ought to have shipped the car back to London, the port from which it came, where the custom officers will have had the clearance sheets. We do not think that this method of shipping cars over here by The General Transport Co., is equal to the methods employed before. We should not have any difficulty with 93 NK, as we have got our clearance papers here, a copy of which was given me by the customs officials at Dover. We are sorry for the delay but we do not think that it is Mr. Croydon's or Paris' fault. Re 93 NK. we have already sent you results of steering tests. Evidently you had not received these when you wrote your letter. We are endeavouring to obtain as much data as we possibly can. We cannot do more. As regards the high speed wobbles, we are in the same position as we have been in Derby, and now we cannot get these readily for some inexplicable reason. We are doing our utmost to get at the bottom of this, and will duly notify you of our results. We shall endeavour, after finishing steering tests, to arrive back in Derby about the 20th inst. We are arranging for Mr. Croydon to return to Paris, for the short time we are away, as he will take this opportunity of clearing up a few personal affairs. He will be in touch with the Paris depot, so that immediately you definitely state the next car will arrive in France he will be duly notified and will be at the port of arrival to meet the car. Will you, therefore, please make certain that Paris is informed of the date of the car leaving England. | ||