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 from Overdrive Gears Ltd. regarding a demonstration car meeting and a potential aeronautical apparatus demonstration for V.P. Propellers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\2\ scan0010 | |
| Date | 23th January 1939 | |
| 1153 PLEASE REPLY DIRECT TO “ORMIDALE” THE AVENUE, HATCH END, MIDDX. ‘PHONE: HATCH END 1221 Overdrive Gears Ltd., DIRECTORS A.C.WICKMAN. WALTER JENKS. C. D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} GAY. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} de NORMANVILLE. 76,VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, S. W. 1. TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAMS VICTORIA 6291 EN/KA 23rd January, 1939. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Your Reference Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}6/MH.{M. Huckerby} Dear Sirs, I thank you for your letter of the 20th inst., and will call about 11 o'clock on Thursday morning with the demonstration car. Postponed to Tuesday next If it is not imposing on your courtesy, I wonder whether you would be kind enough to ask someone interested in your aeronautical design problems whether he would be interested in seeing the job whilst I am up at the Works; as I think such apparatus would prove advantageous with V.P. Propellers. Hoping that this request is not an undue imposition on your courtesy, and thanking you for giving me the opportunity of bringing the demonstration car along. Yours faithfully, OVERDRIVE GEARS LIMITED. Edgar deNormanville. Managing Director. [Handwritten Note] Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Please get into touch with Bus when you have lunched with him Lid{A. J. Lidsey} | ||