Letter to coachbuilder Park Ward & Co. regarding overtime work to expedite the completion of a car body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 7\5\ X 604 Body-page045 | |
| Date | 27th November 1936 | |
| Copy to Mr.Ba. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} Hn. {F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} E {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} /EV. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} 1/MN. 27th. November,1936. Messrs.Park Ward & Co., 473, High Road, Willesden, London,N.W.10. Dear Sirs, Re 24 G.6. We thank you for your letter of 26th.inst. concerning the working of overtime on the above body, and confirm that if you work overtime immediately you will be able to have the shell panelled and mounted on the dummy chassis ready for inspection by the 11th. December, or in normal working time by the 18th. December which was your original promised date. Also that you would require three weeks after the inspection of the dummy chassis to finish the body off for delivery with overtime, or four weeks in normal working hours. We have decided to ask you to work overtime and do everything that is possible to speed this job up to the utmost, and we have sent you a telegram to this effect. Yours faithfully, For and on behalf of ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. | ||
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).