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).
Correspondence regarding the shipment of a front axle and two wheels for Chassis 21-EX from Paris to Derby.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\3\ Scan019 | |
| Date | 16th December 1929 | |
| X7950 To " D " Derby (Copy to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}) From Paris Stores Dept. Chassis 21-EX With reference to your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/MJ of 16.12.29 kindly note that we are arranging to send you through Hermu Péron & Co by Petite Vitesse the Front Axle and two Wheels that were at Chateauroux. We would like to inform you that we sent Robert Julet and a man by train to Chateauroux in order to pack this front axle and two wheels for returning to Derby; and on completion of the job Julet locked up the garage and handed the key to the proprietor of the Hotel de France. We enclose copy of our Declaration for British Customs, together with our P.Os 20236/7, also copy of Pro Forma Invoice. We shall be glad to hear from you in due course that these parts have arrived safely, so that we may close our file on this subject. EWP.{Mr Punt} | ||