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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).
Letter discussing customs documents (triptique/carnet) and international passes for continental travel.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 76\1\  scan0084
Date  22th May 1914 guessed
  
Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}/Mcr2/L22514.

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foreign countries on depositing the Customs
fee for that country which has the highest
rate, the only exception being Germany which
requires a separate triptique. This is
what the triptique form stated, but the
local R.A.C. man only filled up one form
and requested us to forward the amount
stated above, and on the form in question
he did not answer the question whether
triptique or "carnet etc." is required.
The R.A.C. man says there will be no
difficulty over this point and I hope he
is right, but I thought it better to put
you in possession of all the facts in case
of any question being raised.

With reference to the question
of the International passes for Messrs
Percy and Jarrott, the local R.A.C. man
is very insistent on the point that the
drivers pass and the car's pass are really
two separate things, and they are only
joined together for the convenience of a
man who is taking a car for a trip on the
Continent, knowing that he and the car
  
  


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