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).
Cost and technical suitability of a license for the Maybach Easy Change Gear.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 6\2\ 02-page172 | |
| Date | 21th April 1931 | |
| ITS RECEIVED FROM F.G. COPY to R.{Sir Henry Royce} Sor. X52-3 X209 License for Maybach Easy Change Gear. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}7/H21.4.31 Replying to BY10/G.17.4.31 you will have received RS{Sir Henry Royce's Secretary}/M14.4.31. I am glad to see that R.{Sir Henry Royce} feels that these people are asking much too much and that he would prefer to spend money in extra work on the designs rather than pay this royalty. From a memo. which I have seen from the Experimental Dept. I gather that technically they are less keen on the Maybach clutch than they were so that it rather looks as if, apart from the question of the amount demanded for royalty, we shall not be desirous of adopting their device. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||