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).
Confirming a telephone conversation and subsequent order for two sets of pressed aluminium number plates.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\4\ scan0266 | |
| Date | 1st May 1939 | |
| 1259 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to G/JWH. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}4/JH.1.5.39. Confirming our telephone conversation with Mr. Simpson will you please order 2 sets of Homo pressed Alum number plates to RC.{R. Childs}7338 and RC.{R. Childs}7339. The front plate to be oblong and the rear square. O/N.52444. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} | ||