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).
Inadvisable strategy of threatening a supplier by considering buying tyres from other manufacturers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\4\ Scan010 | |
| Date | 7th October 1911 | |
| R.P. 473 (50 H) (W 930. 7.10.11). E.P 198. 2. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 813 (Two Lines). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. DATE. cannot suggest any means of bringing pressure to bear, other than a threat that we shall buy other makers tyres. Will you kindly advise us on this matter, as we do not consider this step to be advisable. T B Barrington This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||