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).
Urgent internal memo requesting the order of a 5-gallon drum of Castrol XXL Oil for Mr. E.R. Hall's car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 145\1\ scan0173 | |
| Date | 19th August 1936 | |
| X1229 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GR.{George Ratcliffe}22/KW.19.8.36. Will you please order, for use on Mr. E.R. Hall's car, one 5-gallon drum of Castrol XXL Oil. As this oil is very urgently required, we shall be glad if you will telephone the order, asking Messrs. Wakefield to send the drum by passenger train, advising us when it may be collected. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.Ratcliffe. | ||