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).
Typed letter discussing travel arrangements in Europe, spotting mines, and the logistics of moving cars to England.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 146\4\ scan0167 | |
| Date | 12th October 1939 | |
| To: "Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}" No 2. Sr21/Dn12.10.39 This gave me an opportunity of meeting the Southern Railway agent now in charge, and other people. Don will bring this information over to you, so that if any of the members of the Company have to travel this way, they can get in touch with these people, and their journey will be greatly facilitated. Incidentally, owing to a terrific storm the night before we left, we spent quite a while locating mines. We spotted five or six of these, which we ran after on certain occasions, so as to get their proper location. They are nasty-looking things, but, as I have already stated, it was quite interesting. You might tell Grylls that I travelled from Boulogne to Paris with the Marquis Imperiali's ex-wife, whose former husband he asked me to see in Paris. This lady is a charming person, but was very frightened. I think this is about all the news for the moment. The spirit over here is excellent, but personally I cannot quite grasp what the ultimate outcome of the hostilities will be, if they ever come about, - enfin qui vivra verra! I have two cars to go over to England, and was planning loading them up with "Derby special", but the difficulties are great at the present time, and the possibility of getting the cars any farther than say Folkestone is rather remote in view of the problem of getting any petrol on your side. If, however, you are in a position to go down to Folkestone, or send somebody to bring the cars from Folkestone to Derby as and when I can get them over, I will do so. Kindly let me know. With kind regards to all and sundry, love to Beryl and my respects to Mlle Lappin, who I hope is going to keep up the excellent habit I gave her of weeding the garden. Sh. P.S. I shall be interested to know what the outcome of the Dollfus meeting was. h.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} | ||