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 confirming a telegram to postpone a visit and proposing alternative arrangements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 165\3\ img087 | |
| Date | 5th February 1934 | |
| 100 Banbury Road, Oxford. Feb. 5th 1934. 86033 WST Your ref. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.3/MA. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., Derby. Dear Sirs, I beg to confirm the following telegram despatched to you this morning in reply to your letter of the 3rd inst: "Your letter reference Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.3/MA just received. Postponing todays visit. Writing. Robinson." Very many thanks for the letter informing me of your pressing engagements. I was just about to start for Derby when it arrived. I am afraid I cannot manage to come on Thursday the 8th inst., as I have an appointment in London on that day to demonstrate another invention to Messrs. Smith & Sons of Cricklewood, the Motor Accessory Manufacturers. As to Friday the 9th., I am not sure, at the | ||