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).
Mounting of a body on an experimental car chassis, including paint color preference.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\3\ scan0070 | |
| Date | 15th October 1936 | |
| W/S - Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} X204 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}9/KW.15.10.36. Bodies for Experimental Cars. Replying to Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}5/KW.13.10.36. This body will have to be mounted at Derby as we are proposing to fit it to the chassis with independent wheel suspension. We do not know whether the body is painted, if not we should like it and the wings to be finished a dark elephant grey. We are ready for the body at Derby as soon as it can be sent up. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||