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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).
Telegram requesting an oil pump be sent by passenger train due to inability to arrange road transport.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 136\3\  scan0126
Date  25th April 1941
  
POST OFFICE TELEGRAM
No. 042
Office Stamp: DERBY STATION BP338 25 APR 41 10 2
Charges to pay
RECEIVED
Handwritten: P/Sa
Prefix: 67
Time handed in: 10.11
Office of Origin: MARKETHARBOROUGH LE
Words: 23
From: [Illegible Signature]
To: ROYCAR DERBY
Message: ATTENTION ROBOTHAM PLEASE PUT OIL PUMP ON PASSENGER TRAIN AND ADVISE US TIME OF ARRIVAL UNABLE TO ARRANGE ROAD TRANSPORT
Handwritten Notes: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}, Oil filters? (Worths), 1139
For free repetition of doubtful words telephone '7' = WORTH +
  
  


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