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).
Providing strict instructions on maintaining secrecy about the new braking system during a press demonstration.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 73\3\ scan0229 | |
| Date | 1st October 1924 | |
| To FH from CJ. To Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} from CJ. To EF from CJ. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from CJ. To H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} from CJ. Braking system. Please make it clear to those who will be demonstrating brakes on the 10th instant to representatives of the Press that it is desired that no information concerning our brake system should be given to the Press other than that contained in the printed description which has already been circulated to the Press. If a Pressman asks for further information, the request should be resisted and it should be stated quite definitely that the brains, time and money of the Company have been expended most liberally over a long period with a view to arriving at a satisfactory system of 6 brakes. The information which we think can be imparted to the public without parting with the secrets of our design is contained in the printed pamphlet. It is not desired, however, that publication should be made of any information which is not in the printed pamphlet, as it might be of service to our trade competitors to receive such information and, therefore, we should be the sufferers by its being given. We should regard it as an unfriendly act if any Pressmen were to obtain this secret information and convey it to the public and thus to our competitors. CJ. | ||