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).
Job application letter from an engineering graduate.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 169\2\ img027 | |
| Date | 5th May 1925 guessed | |
| To - Fowler Clarke Esq. Rolls Royce Ld Derby. Dear Sir, I am looking for a job for next July when I shall have completed the Tripos course in Engineering and obtained my degree. I wrote to your firm asking them if they could offer me a post, and received their reply in the negative. I am writing to you on the chance that my letter did not find its way to your department - the one into which I had hoped to be taken. Before going up to Cambridge I was employed for nearly three years by The British Lighting and Ignition Co Ld of Birmingham, and | ||