T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 36

Rythe 28.11.31. Dear Flight Lieutenant Beauforte-Greenwood, The Ryland castings will not be delivered till tomorrow. If machining etc. goes without hitch 202 may b be in the water on Thursday afternoon, therefore. We will get her going at the first possible moment, of course. The B.P.B.Co. hope to have 204 and 205 (or 203) ready for test and trial by Monday or T'esday next. That will probably bring you down; and the Ryland control should be ready for your final judgement then, as anyrate. It may be right by the Friday, of course; but that is if no hitch occurs in the re-building. On Boxing Day I went to Plymouth and checked the petrol and spares of R.A.F. 200. In amount they are much the same as the claim but in nomenclature the invoice and claims differ. So the B.P.B.Co. are at work on the new claim, which will ...exactly agree with what we really had. Then it can be certified as supported by 601 G, and C.T.V. I will send the papers back in a day or two. The "tank hire" charge is being deleted. To make out a new correct claim in less complicated than annotating the existing one, which as it has not gone through. "Finance" hands can probably be scrapped silently.