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).
Delay in producing a Peregrine body and a dispute over a lorry journey's load.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 1\1\ B001_104 Body-page26 | |
| Date | 29th June 1932 | |
| WOR.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} X104P DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/M29.6.32. X.4027 Copy to HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/LID.{A. J. Lidsey} PEREGRINE BODY. Referring to HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/LID{A. J. Lidsey}9/KT24632., we would like to state that due to pressure of work on customers cars through orders which could only be obtained by giving delivery 14 days after receipt of chassis, experimental work at Park Wards had to be delayed, and at the last minute it was discovered that the body would not be ready on the day mentioned in our DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}3/M16632. It is usually the practice of the Expl. Dept. to definitely ascertain that the body will be ready on the day stated, the day before the lorry leaves, as it is impossible for us, a fortnight before the date fixed to be able to guarantee the time. The Expl. Dept. usually ask HN.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} by letter, or on the afternoon 'phone call. We think it is an unreasonable risk to take, to send a lorry on an instruction a fortnight old fixing a proposed date. As a matter of fact we are informed that it is not true that the lorry made the journey empty. It carried a full load, including an aero engine, from Derby to Cricklewood, and returned also full. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||