Visit to the Paris Show to test competitor cars, specifically the Austro Daimler and Tracta for their suspension.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 21\1\ Scan027 | |
| Date | 27th September 1928 | |
| To HK. {Col. T. Harker - Sales} Paris. From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X1056 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 4/LG27.9.28 43609 I shall be coming to Paris on Monday the 8th. approx. and shall be at the Paris Show on Tuesday and Wednesday. I am particularly anxious to try an Austro Daimler with the new type of suspension and a Tracta car. Also any other car which has original type of suspension. We have had a Lancia, and we know all about the Cottin des Gouttes but we do not like it sufficiently to buy one. I wonder whether it would be possible for you to arrange a trial run on these cars of somewhat longer duration than the average. We are looking out for a car to purchase experimentally so that a sale would be effected if the features of the car are what we want. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||
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).