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).
Page two of a typed letter to Alan S. Chambers Esq. discussing a mutual acquaintance.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\1\ scan0004 | |
| Date | 8th July 1938 | |
| - 2 - 8th July 1938. a practical point of view it will probably be his last and that is why he was tempted to waste your time (to the extent of forgetting the drink that one E.H.Watts had offered, and being cast in the mould of a German jew he forgot to ask you to lunch. Please accept his apologies. I wonder if the aforementioned Alan has any inclination to waste any more time over the generation (the fathers of which were great friends) if so, he might ask you to bend the colossal mind and give him some more advice. If, on the other hand he is too busy he goes wandering about the country with a nine year old Packard, which is still doing extraordinarily well. Yours sincerely, [Illegible Signature] Alan S. Chambers Esq., 308 | ||