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).
Letter arranging the dispatch of a 20 HP car with 4-wheel brakes for a 10,000-mile test run in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 180\M2\M2.6\ img001 | |
| Date | 20th May 1925 | |
| Handwritten: 1st 20 with FWB 9 G11 X5840 R 3 or 4 speed gearbox? Typed: Expl: Dept: Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby, Angleterre. 20th. May 1925. Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. Mr. Hancock from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} We are proposing to send a 20 HP. car fitted with 4-wheel brakes to Chateauroux early next week to run 10,000 miles. We should like you to return to Derby as soon as possible so that you can go out with this car, and so that we can talk over the points in connection with it before it leaves. Will you please arrange for the tests on 93-NK car to continue whilst you are absent. It would also be advisable to let Marston come back and we will arrange for another Fitter to come out because when we have two cars we think it is necessary to have somebody there. Will you please wire us when you will arrive in Derby. Handwritten: 9 G11 Shipped per SS{S. Smith} Button, Limehoused wharfed London from Boulogne Sat. Should arrived. their Paris telegraphed & meet Gen Train mon R-R drivers arrives @ Boulogne at these times Sat am Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||