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 the Royal Air Force regarding the purchase and invoicing for work on a Thornycroft Launching winch.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 175\2\ img033 | |
| Date | 4th December 1940 | |
| [Illegible handwritten note] Central Landing Establishment, Royal Air Force, Ringway, Nr. Manchester. Ref;- CLE/S.1406/E(DU). 4th December 1940. 9056 Dear Mr. Robotham About the Derbyshire and Lancashire Ford V 8 - Thornycroft Launching winch, the R.A.F. have been asked to buy it. From your letter I took it to be owned by the Derbyshire and Lancashire club and so have given them as the owners. 2. Will you invoice to this unit the work that you had to do on it and I propose to settle it on a Local Purchase Order. Yours sincerely Mungo Buxton for Grp Capt W.A. Robotham, Esq., Rolls Royce, Ltd., Derby. | ||