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 requesting informal 'snapshot' style photographs of a Bentley car rather than posed professional ones.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\1\ scan0047 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1933 | |
| VH553a- G.W.Hancock, c/o Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, FRANCE. To GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}, from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}16/KT.3.3.33. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BENTLEY CAR. The photographs you have supplied of the Bentley car are not what is required. The object of these photographs is to obtain a snapshot which one could imagine could be taken by anyone who met the car on the road, and it will be published as an unofficial photograph. The sort of thing that would do quite well is that if the car stood outside the "pub" at Chateauroux and a snapshot was taken of it, we don't mind if someone stood by the car. The last thing we desire, however, is a posed professional touch about it. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||