The status of work on a Delaunay Belleville car, a Lanchester chassis, and a Napier chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 22\3\ Scan041 | |
| Date | 17th April 1912 | |
| R.R. 215 (30 m) (X500. 6.3.12) G 2987. HP31/T17412. X440 W ro {C. C. Rose - Export Manager} S. Mr Cowen. 17.4.12 Re Delaunay Belleville & Lanchesters cars. With reference to the above and your sheet C3/B15312 in the case of the Delaunay Belleville, we have not yet commenced to dis-semble this car, and therefore cannot say when we shall have finished with same. We can, if it will help you at all, let you have this car now, providing you can send it back to us later on when we require same. With regard to the Lanchester chassis, this is now all in pieces, and I am taking some of the parts of it to France for Mr Royce to inspect, after which we propose building up the chassis again and carrying out further experiments, and do not think we can promise to deliver this chassis for at least another month or six weeks. With regard to the Napier chassis, please. [Handwritten note, left side] Please advise particulars i.e. what body fitted, if any, type steering, springs. Have you a body you can fit temporary. [Handwritten note, right side] Advise & oblige, if any charge 7/3'5 | ||
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).