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).
Satirically formal letter to the editor of the 'Levallois Gazette' regarding a blueprint for a Kingsbury Patent Track Rod Constant Load Adjuster.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\5\ scan0189 | |
| Date | 22th September 1938 | |
| FROM: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Kingsbury. To: The Editor, "Levallois Gazette". Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}/DPB/22.9.38. Dear Sir, I am in receipt of your esteemed enquiry re the requisition of a Blue Print of the Kingsbury Patent Track Rod Constant Load Adjuster. I can assure you that in the interests of our most world famed firm designated "ROLLS-ROYCE", I have taken every conceivable action to procure the said Kingsbury Patent Track Rod Blue Print. It is being despatched by the Chief Designer's Assistant at this moment to the Chief of the Packing Department, whom I am assured will personally supervise the correct and judicious packing of this Print. It will then be despatched by the Mail Van to the General Post Office, whose assurance we have of their guarantee to despatch the Print to you without delay. I beg to assure you of my indebtedness for your condescending enquiry and must deferentially trust that you will continue to utilise me as your servant. With deep obeisances from the dust in which I grovel, Thy humble & obedient serf, | ||