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 an order to be issued for pattern alterations and transport costs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 146\4\ scan0104 | |
| Date | 27th August 1940 | |
| Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Will you please issue an order to the Pattern & Model Manufacturing Co., Coventry, for the sum of £976. 17s. 6d. less £4. 10s. being the sum charged for alterations which had to be carried out after the patterns had been delivered. This deduction has been agreed to by the Pattern & Model Manufacturing Co., Attached is a detailed list of patterns received. Will you also please issue an official order to the above Company for the undernoted Transport in connec- tion with the same job. Transport on Patterns to Derby per the Economic Transport Co., on 22nd. March 1940. £3. -. -. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||