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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).
Requesting authority to proceed with the scrapping of Peregrine chassis.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 1\8\  B001_X100 Engine Chassis-page177
Date  23th November 1934
  
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Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}

Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}2/R.23.11.34.

Scrapping Peregrine Chassis.
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/KW.23.11.34.

Will you please give me your authority for the instructions contained in your memo to Hd{Mr Hayward/Mr Huddy}?, because I have instructed Hd.{Mr Hayward/Mr Huddy} to scrap the whole of these chassis, and put the bodies on one side, and I will let him have instructions how to deal with these at the earliest possible moment. This arrangement was agreed to at our Conference with Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}

Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}
  
  


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