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).
Disapproval of a millwright's estimate and the consideration of sub-contracting.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\2\ scan0173 | |
| Date | 4th May 1939 | |
| 1260. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Ryc. from Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 3/R.4.5.39. Here is another Millwright's estimate of which we cannot approve. If to do this work really requires £233' worth of labour, we consider that we should sub-contract this sort of work. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||