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).
Secret memorandum detailing the strict handling procedures for the bonnet key of a specific vehicle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 69\3\ scan0126 | |
| Date | 14th March 1925 | |
| 48770 CJ15/E21.1.24. S E C R E T. I have received the key of the bonnet of Car No. 44.PK I have read CJ's memorandum of the 21st. Jan. and realise that under no circumstances whatever must I open the bonnet in the face of any person, no matter whether that person may be my closest friend or relation. I realise that I am entrusted with secret knowledge of a very precious nature and that by disclosing the secret I may be doing vast financial harm to the shareholders and to my colleagues. I will not part with the key unless I receive a receipt similarly worded to the one which I now sign from the person to whom I entrust it. -------------------- CJ13/E20.3.24. The holder of the key should send, in an envelope, marked 'SECRET', addressed to me, or in my absence, to The General Manager, daily a return shewing :- Firstly - a precise record of the people who were driven on this car during the 24 hours concerned. Secondly - the occasions on which the bonnet was opened and what were the surroundings of the car whereby it was impossible for the contents of the bonnet to be seen. Thirdly - where the car was garaged - Note :- It is desirable that the car should never be garaged in public garages situated in large centres of motoring [text struck through with 'x's] but should rather be taken to some country Inn and locked up in a coach-house. Sgd...A.W.Halliday... Date...14/3/25........ | ||