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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).
Letter from The Rover Company Ltd. regarding a patent dispute with Chrysler over 'Floating Power Suspension'.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 147\1\  scan0014
Date  20th November 1933
  
TELEPHONE 8081 (7 LINES).
TELEGRAMS: ROVER, "COVENTRY."

THE ROVER COMPANY LTD.
COVENTRY, ENG.

SBW:ME.

November 20th 1933.

W.A. Robotham Esq.,
Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd,
Derby.

Dear Robotham,

Chrysler people have taken out patents in England for what they call their "Floating Power Suspension".

I do not think we infringed them but they might think we did. Our patent agent tells us that their applications are completely anticipated by some that Rolls Royce took out before the war - patent number 23828 dated 1913.

If you have any further information in connection with this patent that might help us should we be threatened by Chrysler, I should be much obliged if you could let me have it.

Yours sincerely,

S.B. Wilks

[Stamp: RECEIVED 21 NOV 1933]

The above letter was dictated by Mr. S.B. Wilks but he was unable to sign it as he had to leave before it was typed to catch the train for the Scottish Show.
  
  


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