Floorboard overheating on Lord Herbert Scott's car and a request for a double shuttered bonnet for experimentation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 119\3\ scan0045 | |
| Date | 4th July 1914 | |
| ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 476 (Four Lines). WorMcr8/L4714. Re Double Shuttered Bonnet. X.1085 Mr Hives. Mr Matthews. 4-7-14. Mr Platford is very anxious to overcome the over-heating of floorboards trouble on 47EB - Lord Herbert Scott's car. He would like to try a double shuttered Bonnet. Have you one that you could lend to him for the above car so that he might experiment with same? If so will you kindly let us know at once. p. Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Mcr. This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||
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).