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).
Secret memo regarding the inability to change a car's registered name for a customs application for a trip to Paris.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\4\ scan0022 | |
| Date | 2nd February 1925 | |
| COPY. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} DERBY. SECRET. Paris. HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales}13/DN2.2.25. 98-NK. Your Hsl/LG31.1.25 to hand this morning requesting me to have the above car registered in the name of :- Mr. Claude Johnson, 14, Conduit Street, London. instead of in Mr. Lidsey's name, and confirm my wire reading :- " HIVES YOUR HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ONE LG OF THIRTYFIRST JANUARY IMPOSSIBLE CHANGE NAME APPLICATION ALREADY MADE". from which you will have understood that it is now too late to act upon your instructions, as the application for the Touring Acquit in Mr. Lidsey's name has already been made to the Customs' Authorities, and as you can well understand, it is impossible to change the name. Under the circumstances, I think this is just as well, and much preferable to the car coming over in the name of 'CJ', who is almost as well known over here as in England. Your memo. under reply has crossed my HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales}11/Dn/AW.31.1.25. from which you will note, among other things, that it will be necessary for Mr. Lidsey to come to Paris a day or two before the car arrives at Boulogne, so as to sign the application form and obtain the grey Card. Kindly let me know if everything is now in order. HK.{Col. T. Harker - Sales} | ||