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Decision to dismantle Experimental Car 9-EX, salvage useful parts, and scrap the remainder.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 123\4\  scan0017
Date  26th January 1931
  
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
AJL
X180.
RECEIVED 26 JAN 1931 HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Experimental Car 9-EX.
Copy to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Hd. {Mr Hayward / Mr Huddy}
Replying to Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 10/MJ.23.1.31 in view of the information given I agree that the best thing to do with this car is to send it in to the Repair Dept. to be dismantled - any useful parts to be put in their Stores and the rest of the car scrapped.
Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
Car sent to Rep. Dept 27.1.31.
  
  
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).


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