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).
Rejecting a high-cost estimate for putting a 6-cylinder engine on an existing test bed.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\2\ scan0172 | |
| Date | 2nd May 1939 | |
| 1260 ? Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Ryc. from Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 10/R.2.5.39. We have received the following estimate for putting the 6-cylinder engine on one of our existing test beds. This seems to us to be a fantastical cost for the job, and we cannot agree to this. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||