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 discussing car availability and suggesting alternatives during wartime.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90\3\ scan0155 | |
| Date | 24th May 1941 | |
| -cont'd- - 2 - Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/SW.24.5.41. I appreciate your objection with regard to the Rolls-Royce radiator, however, many of these cars are being run by the military people, and when camouflaged with some really rough paint cease to look at all plutocratic. Briefly therefore, if you will not have a Rolls-Royce, and I quite appreicate your point of view, I cannot let you have one of the new type Bentleys, and I am sure that the old type will be very little better than your 3½ litre and will not suit you. You will therefore have to get some "foreigner" until we can make you what you want after the war. I am sorry to be so impotent. Yours sincerely, | ||