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).
Order of 15 sets of Rudge-Whitworth wheels for a Bentley car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\7\ scan0147 | |
| Date | 26th June 1933 | |
| To Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} from ROY. {Sir Henry Royce} c. to EY c. to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ROY {Sir Henry Royce} 1/MG26.6.33 15 sets of Rudge-Whitworth Wheels for Bentley car Further to ROYLO/MG20.6.33 re above, the Rudge-Whitworth Company, Birmingham, in acknowledging instructions to proceed with the 15 sets in question, write as follows: 20.6.33 "I anticipate that production will be "sufficiently far advanced by the middle of next week for "your Inspectors to come along and see the progress made "on the job, but I will confirm this to you when I see the "way the job is progressing. "I would like to place on record our "very thorough appreciation of the opportunity you are "giving us to supply you with these fresh components and "you can be definitely assured that I shall watch this job "myself throughout its production and that every advantage "is taken of all the amenities available throughout the "Company, to see that the job is definitely right and that "it is a job which will satisfy the most critical of "examiners". The "I" referred to is Mr. Lansley, their Works Manager. LID {A. J. Lidsey} ROY {Sir Henry Royce} | ||