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).
Need to test a car with a closed body rather than an open one, questioning the difference in springs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 57\1\ Scan162 | |
| Date | 23th June 1925 | |
| [Handwritten] X5770 [Stamped] SECRET. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. Copy to... CWB. [CWB is struck through] BJ13/H23.6.25. 'India' fitted with four-wheel Brakes. Confirming the message on the telephone to-day in reply to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG22.6.25, Friday next, at 10-30 a.m. will suit CJ. and BJ. to try this car at the Albert Hall, with open touring body. Please arrange for us to try the car with a closed body assoon as possible, as 75% of our cars are fitted with closed bodies. It is not much use our trying a car with an open touring body, as we sell so very few of these, and it does not give us very much idea of what a closed car will feel like if we go out on an open car. will the springs on the open car be exactly the same as on the closed car, or will the springs on the closed car be proportionately thicker and stronger? B.J. | ||