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).
Short typed correspondence from Levallois, with a personal handwritten note about the war.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 146\5\ scan0364 | |
| Date | 16th May 1940 | |
| [Typed Text] To Rolls-Royce Ltd. Derby.......... Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Levallois Dear Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} This is to acknowledge receipt of your wire worded FILE LOCATED STOP DESPATCHED TO BLYTHE FOR FORWARDING which, as you well imagine, gave me great pleasure, convinced though I was that it was bound to turn up ultimately. Yours sincerely, [Handwritten Text] Paris 1248. [Signature:] H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Heath [Note at bottom:] It has come at last - this war everybody was so anxious get on with + believe me Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} old boy we know it over here! | ||