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).
Potential purchase of a Maybach 12-cylinder car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 22\5\ Scan010 | |
| Date | 3rd October 1930 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} (83) 4s/9d X3531. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Maybach 12-cylinder car. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}16/E3.10.30 Copy to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Thanks for Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/AD2.10.30. I received a memo from R.{Sir Henry Royce} this morning on the same subject in which he appears to be very lukewarm on the question of the desirability or necessity of purchasing a car of this type. Unfortunately von Winterfeldt is away for another couple of weeks as he has just got married and is on his honeymoon. I have, however, written to his man out there to ask him to try to obtain confidential information we want in regard to deliveries and prices, and by the time we get all this, I expect von Winterfeldt will be back. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||