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).
Letter from Peto & Radford discussing the sale of a Frazer Nash B.M.W. Type 320 car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\3\ scan0107 | |
| Date | 24th March 1941 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex DEPOTS, LONDON - MANCHESTER - GLASGOW TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. 5 LINES. PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS DAGENITE, SOWEST, LONDON. Manufacturers of Accumulators for over 50 years. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON. S.W.1 YOUR REF. ______ OUR REF. M/5. 24th March, 1941. Handwritten note: new Petty Sheet for Frazer Nash ca W.A. Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Robotham, Thank you for yours of the 19th. With regard to the Frazer Nash B.M.W., mine is the Type 320 which is described in the enclosed Catalogue on pages 2 and 3. It is in perfect condition and is now at the Frazer Nash Works at Isleworth and they have it for sale and are asking £375 for it. As I told you, I am prepared to take £325 and I am quite prepared to let you borrow it for a week if you could fetch it from them. The Licence has run out to-day. If you do not want it, no doubt they would not mind it being returned to them for sale. It is a lovely little car, and as prices go to-day is very cheap at £325. If you do fetch it, you may want some sort of authority and the enclosed might help you. There is only one snag about it and that is that the foot-brake bearing is on a fibre bush and in damp weather it sticks sometimes and the foot-brake does not always come off and has to be pulled off. It does not often happen but any driver ought to be warned of this. Otherwise I think you will find it a miniature Bentley. Should the Firm decide to buy it, I think I should like payment in the form of a Credit Note against a car post-war as this would make me feel at the time that there was not so much toput out! Yours sincerely, C.R.N. Minchin. | ||