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).
Concluding it is better to lose orders than risk the company's good name with a dangerous apparatus.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\2\ Scan075 | |
Date | 26th April 1917 | |
R.H. 235a (500 T) (S.L. 408./26-4-17.) Bm. 2/156/13. R (3) and dangerous apparatus would go against the advice of the makers. Kindly therefore run the risk of losing a few orders rather than risk losing our good name. While I am able I shall take enormous interest in our productions, but naturally I shall not continue to do so if I find the information collected, and recommendations, ruthlessly wasted. R.{Sir Henry Royce} * R read Rampant but Rampant | ||