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).
Technical Committee's workload preventing proposal review, with a subsequent urgent handwritten request to examine an expiring patent.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 81\1\ scan0199 | |
| Date | 17th June 1912 | |
| ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, 14-15, CONDUIT STREET, LONDON, W. DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. TELEGRAMS: "ROLHEADRolls-Royce telegram address," LONDON. TELEPHONES: 1654, 1655, 1656 GERRARD. [Header text]: R.R. 476 (50 H) (X 247. 30.4.12) R.P. 1769. [Handwritten reference top right]: X1194 [To]: Mr. Burt. [Date]: 17.6.12. [Reference]: CJ18/C17612. [Handwritten above]: 2576 [Typed Memo]: With reference to the attached, the Technical Committee have been so pressed with other matters in connection with the improvement of the chassis, that they have not yet been able to give your proposal their consideration. C.J. [Handwritten notes in left margin]: W. Johnson [Stamp]: C 22 VI 12 [Handwritten attachment/enclosure note]: Enc: Do you think the Technical Department could spare time to give my patent a superficial examination? Of course I can not expect them to put aside more important matters but I find my provisional patent runs out in August & I do not wish to go to the expense of completing it if it is obviously of no use to the Company. I think scarcely more than a glance at the drawings would enable the Technical Department to give me some indication. E.B. [Handwritten note at bottom]: W. Barrington 27.6.12. Do this please [Footer]: This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||