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 from Peto & Radford regarding a misunderstanding over the sale of a B.M.W. car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\3\ scan0128 | |
| Date | 23th April 1941 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex DEPOTS, LONDON - MANCHESTER - GLASGOW TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. (5 LINES) PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS DAGENITE, SOWEST, LONDON. [LOGO: THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTORS SBAC] [LOGO: ALLIED TRADERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED IN THE YEAR 1905] [LOGO: THE SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS & TRADERS SMMT] MANUFACTURERS of ACCUMULATORS for over 50 years. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS. LONDON. S.W.1. YOUR REF. OUR REF. M/DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} 23rd April 1941 [Handwritten Note: New Fraser Nash can file] [Handwritten Note: 1064] W.A. Rowbotham Esq., Rolls Royce, Derby. Dear Rowbotham, Re B.M.W. Car Further to my recent letter, Mr. Aldington of Messrs. Fraser Nash rang me up and told me that someone from Derby went to collect the car on Monday. As I had told you, I had parted with the car to them but nevertheless, although they have another buyer in view, they would have been quite willing to have sold it for £350:0:0. because they quite realise that if you want a B.M.W. car it is quite easy for you to get one. However, whoever was there told me that you had no intention of buying it but only to take it to pieces and to return it, and as it was their car, I think they can hardly be blamed for not caring about this, especially as it loses a customer, in view of Rolls Royce saying they do not want to buy it. When we had correspondence about it some month or more ago, the car was mine but I did tell you that it was at their place for sale and that I could not guarantee it would be remaining there, and the almost expected happened in that it was sold (to them) while you were trying to find an opportunity to collect it. Had you collected it earlier, I do not think this muddle would have arisen. I am awfully sorry about it, but it is not my fault and I hope that whoever went was not very seriously inconvenienced. We have had packs of trouble and land mines and one thing and another at Dagenham and I have been up for several nights, and what with this and one thing and another, I have not had time to think much about motor cars, | ||