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).
Personal letter from Paddon Brothers Ltd about testing 'scale-buoys' for treating hard water.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 150\3\ scan0359 | |
| Date | 21th February 1938 | |
| PADDON BROTHERS LTD ESTABLISHED 1905. LATE OF I, ALBEMARLE ST. {Capt. P. R. Strong} , PICCADILLY, W.I. TELEPHONES: KENSINGTON 7205/6/7. CARS OFFERED SUBJECT UNSOLD. ROLLS-ROYCE SPECIALISTS CARS OF ANY MAKE REPAIRS-INSURANCE-SERVICE DIRECTORS: HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SOMERSET, D.S.O., O.B.E. PHIL PADDON,(MANAGING DIRECTOR) HUGH KELLER. SALES MANAGER: ARTHUR VERLEY. SECRETARY: MISS M.B. JAMES. TELEGRAMS: PADSOP, SOUTHKENS, LONDON. N.B.-PASSING HARRODS ON LEFT, CHEVAL PLACE IS SECOND ON RIGHT. 60, Cheval Place, Brompton Road, S.W.7. [Handwritten top right]: 1280 PWP/DF London, 21st February 1938. PERSONAL P.H. Grylls Esq., Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. [Handwritten initials next to address]: W.A.R./S.S.G My dear Grylls, Are you, in your position, bothered to try all kinds of fool things? I expect so: will you please forgive me then if I ask you to try another which, perhaps, is not a fool thing - that I don't know. Anyway I am sending it to you: please do nothing or something just as you think. I must say that I did instal these scale-buoys in our tanks in the country, where the water is devilish hard: and they appeared to do something - that is I could shave without using rain water. Yours sincerely, [Signature: Phil Paddon] [Handwritten note at bottom]: S.T.J) Have for me these Gry {Shadwell Grylls} | ||