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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).
Need for more capacity and negotiations to acquire space for a chassis assembly department.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 148\2\  scan0280
Date  24th January 1940 guessed
  
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There is however one outstanding feature in the organisation which calls for immediate attention, i.e. capacity. We are negotiating with Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} to obtain the remaining portion of No.3 Shop, if however, as it is understood, you anticipate vacating the Garage, we should like to make very certain at this early stage that we may have possession of same, to be used solely for a chassis assembly department.

HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}
  
  


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