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 to W.A. Robotham arranging a meeting in Derby.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\3\ scan0223 | |
| Date | 26th April 1940 | |
| 1204. CONTRACTORS TO THE WAR OFFICE AND AIR MINISTRY. WORKS: DAGENHAM DOCK. ESSEX. TELEPHONE: POTTER STREET XX106 PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett @ Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. SALES AND GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS DEPARTMENTS. DURING WAR "RUNDELLS", LATTON, near HARLOW, Essex. OUR REF M/5. YOUR REF 26th April, 1940. W.A. Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Robotham, Thank you for yours of the 22nd. I am coming by train from Birmingham on Monday morning getting to Derby some time between 11.30 and 12. I will go into the Midland Hotel and write some letters and wait there until either you or Grylls turn up and I hope you will be there. Yours sincerely, GRN Minchin [Handwritten] I too am going for a holiday. Haven't had one day off for over 2 years. Am arranging to go to The South of France - by car !! (SEE YOU) | ||