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 to an inventor stating the policy of only considering new inventions if a working model is provided.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 152\3\ scan0173 | |
| Date | 6th August 1935 | |
| Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 4/KW. Exptl. Dept. 6th August, 1935. M.G. Brodiansky, Esq., 21, Linkenholt Mansions, London, W.6. Dear Sir, We thank you for your letter of August 2nd. As you point out, a great deal of our time is taken up with propositions relating to new inventions. It is our invariable practice to insist that inventors should produce working models of their devices before we take any interest in them. Under no circumstances whatever should we consider constructing such models for an inventor, nor would the working drawings be of any interest to us. If and when a working model of the invention in question is available, we shall be interested to see it. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||