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 the return of a pair of experimental wheels loaned to Lord Cholmondeley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\4\ scan0241 | |
| Date | 27th January 1938 | |
| Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 261 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/R.27.1.38. I should be glad if you could arrange to look after some wheels for me. The position is that we loaned Lord Cholmondeley a pair of experimental wheels 17 x 6½, and at the present moment they are at his Garage at 12, Kensington Palace Gardens, London. W.8. Cholmondeley has finished with these wheels, and we should be glad if you could send them back to Derby, addressed for my attention, the next time a suitable car is coming North. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||