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).
Design and distribution of rear number plates and tail lamps for sports cars to coachbuilders.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61a\1\ scan0294 | |
| Date | 1st November 1927 | |
| BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} c. to HN.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} X1357 DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}3/MA.11.27. RE. EAC.14. REAR NUMBER PLATE. X.4152 X.8800 X.1357 We have sent Messrs. Jarvis & Son Ltd., Barker & Co.Ltd., and Hooper & Co.Ltd., a design for the rear number plate and tail lamp for the sports car, and have asked them to use the lamp holder we designed for the frame instrument patch. We should be glad if you could send us three of these holders, complete with the shield F.75580 for us to dsitribute to them as soon as possible. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||