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 loss of experimental department documents by fire and the practicalities of storage in the Strong Room.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\1\ Scan105 | |
| Date | 15th March 1922 | |
| D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X1775 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG15.3.22. Referring to your memo, asking whether it would have any serious effect if Documents existing in the Experimental Dept. were destroyed by fire. We have, in the Expl: Dept: all the files containing experimental reports. These are valuable but as copies of these reports are sent out to the principal Officials of the Company, there should be copies available if those in the Expl: Dept: happened to be destroyed by fire. At one time we attempted to place these files in the Strong Room at night, but it was found to be inconvenient. It might be practicable to keep in the Strong Room a percentage of Experimental Files of jobs which have been completed. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||