Production status of a Park Ward steel and aluminium body, with a handwritten note about weight savings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0395 | |
| Date | 1st November 1935 | |
| Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} S/W. {Sales / Derby Works} Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Cx {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} 8/KW1.11.35. You asked me at the Works on Wednesday last to let you know the position with the Park Ward steel and aluminium body which they are building for us. I am informed it is at present in the framing state, and is expected to be ready for mounting to the chassis in about two weeks. Ask Cx {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} to let me have wt saving over the all steel body, when the figures are available Cx. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} - Hives 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).