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).
Letter on Peto & Radford headed paper to Mr. Robotham regarding a delay in communication and work on an anti-night bomber device.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\5\ scan0201 | |
| Date | 8th May 1941 | |
| CONTRACTORS TO THE WAR OFFICE AND AIR MINISTRY. WORKS: DAGENHAM DOCK, ESSEX. TELEPHONE: POTTER STREET PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett @ Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. SALES AND GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS DEPARTMENTS. DURING WAR "RUNDELLS" LATTON, near HARLOW, Essex. OUR REF ........... YOUR REF ........... 8. 5. 41. Dear Robotham, I am sorry to be so long in acknow-ledging your note of April 23rd but I never have a moment for anything in this bloody life. I am one of the 5 engaged on the anti night bomber & we are going all out. Results are better but the device we believe to be by far the most promising has not been tried in action yet. I am so sorry about the BMW but our letters kept crossing & your people were so long in fetching it & then didn't ring up to know if it was still available, that the contretemps happened. I was away up North at the time. However, as R.{Sir Henry Royce} used to say, out of evil | ||