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).
Clarifying the formal ordering procedure between the English and American companies.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\3\ Scan155 | |
| Date | 23th January 1930 | |
| S/W. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} W.oF. G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} PF. D/SP.{Mr Spinney} SN.{Mr Sanderson} HK.{Col. T. Harker - Sales} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Ro.{C. C. Rose - Export Manager} Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} Whr{Mr Wheeler}3/D23.1.30. Re: R.R.A.I. Mr. Beaver, who is Vice-President and Treasurer of the Rolls-Royce American Company, has been over here on business in connection with the American Company, and in the course of discussion with Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} he said he wanted to make it clear that in the ordinary way we, the English Company, should not supply any goods or do any work for the American Company for which we expect payment, unless we receive from them a formal order form, that is to say, a printed order form, which comes from the office of their Purchasing Agent, Mr. A.C. Ross. In reply to a question as to what we should do if we received a cable from the American Company ordering chassis or other goods, Mr. Beaver said that we should treat the cable as a formal order, but that we should acknowledge the cable and our acknowledgment, or a copy of it, should be sent to their Purchasing Agent in New York. Whr.{Mr Wheeler} | ||