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Status and future plans for two experimental cars, 85-JS and GAE-20.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 123\4\  scan0225
Date  5th February 1936
  
W/S {Derby Works / Sales} - Cx. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} x1042 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 12/KW.5.2.36.

Experimental Cars.

Replying to your Cx. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} 9/KW.30.1.36.

85-JS {Mr Johnson's Secretary} car, which was known at Derby as 27-EX, and was used for the original parallel motion independent front wheel suspension tests, was scrapped early last year, see memo. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 15/KW.5.3.35, but the damaged body is still in the Repair Dept. at Derby.

With regard to GAE-20 car, we want to keep this in order to fit to it a large bore unit and up-to-date throttle controls, so that we shall have running in England a car similar to 22-G-V. {VIENNA}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
  
  
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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