Correspondence dated 30 September 1947

Summary

An item from the surviving correspondence of William John Sands.

Historical context

This item forms part of the surviving William John Sands correspondence and is dated 30 September 1947. It is preserved in the William John Sands Family Archive as evidence of Sands’s professional work and relationships. The accompanying transcript was produced by machine OCR and should be checked against the original scan before being treated as a definitive reading.

Catalogue description

Original correspondence scan imported from the Sands and Ferguson family archive. Source file: 19470930A.pdf.

Machine transcript — unreviewed

are 411 opened. P. 8. Lo not adress wy letter C/O lierry Ferguson Lta as tney Sa PFC CAN vp ed Ta i *"Myrtelfield® Hil&sboro' Old Road, LISBURN 30th September, 1947. Dear Harold, . I must apologize é hundred tines for not answering your letters but I Am that darned lezy when it comes to writing tnat I will offer that us 4 good excuse. A lot of chunges . ve taken place since we left De rborn in 1939, sy worst blow wes sy Wife dying in 1944 she dic not —~ive to see the great things thut Mr. Ferguson »romised us ail. I am still waiting for him to fulfill his :rouise. I just wrote him to-day reminding him of statements he mude 20 yeers igo and expect ne will go off the aceep end when he reuds it. : As fer as I can gather he wes very upset when the bre-k with Ford Game about, of cours, you know he peid a lig’ tning visit to U. & in June but could not fix up witn Fords so it shows ne now realizeé the asset the Ford orgunization wus to him. §- Up to now I am still being peid ay Salary by H.Ferguson® Holding Ltd., Stow -on-t .e-Wold but I heve sugrested in ay letter to him to-duy that I wish to discontinue in their service so us to leave me free to go where I like witn any ideaw or inventions I uay develop in future. XX¥X I only go over to Coventry about every two months stey for a few days and ge buck houe as «uickly es »ossible. Maybe y u could send me sowe literuture of the new Ford Tractor, I will promise you fuithfully not to civulge anything y u say to any one as I Mave le:rned it is better to say nothing to inyone in our organization it you do not want it curried. I would like yu to convey to Mark Feeley anc L. liunes when you see then my very best wishes and «kind regards. These two aen wepe vey big factors in putting the Ford Ferguson Tractor into being, but some veople soon forget, I know how such tney did, they wer e worth 20 of sone of the bbokes tliey have now. I am sure Harold you heve yuined « lot of ex crience te American conditions since you left the Company of course H. F. Ine. do not want anyone that aight Know nore than the big cheeses anc yu _ must be able to suy nes sir anc clap the big fellows on the back. There was a lawyer over here from Wall Etreet collesting inforsaKtion witn a view to tuking « legal actin aecinst Ford's, ~~ have you heard anything about ét at all I am afriic there 1s not auch grounds for a court cuse. I was to go to Coventry lust night but I called it off unti: ire Fe. made goud his promises, his reply wil. probatly be to resign, I will let you know what ha -ens. I wili finish with Bais una write you -.in in = few days wnen I get some hot nes from the Goventry front, five ay regards and best wishes to all our old friends also irs. Wiliey snd family. Yours,sincerely, /s/ WILLIAM J. SANDS