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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
  
  


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