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).
Car's press-run and a contingency plan to cancel it by claiming an accident if any undesirable features are found.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 130\1\ scan0078 | |
| Date | 25th October 1933 | |
| HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X4117 W.G/WT25.10.33. 3/w... from PH. Copy to [REDACTED] Ex. [REDACTED] GYZ-42. and GYZ-31. Referring to my PH.W/WT24.10.33, although it is not expected that you will find anything very seriously amiss with this car, it is important that in the event of your deciding that its performance, or any feature about the car, may be undesirable from the point of view of the press-run to be given on Friday afternoon, please communicate with me at once either by wire or 'phone in order that we can explain to the Journalist that there has been some accident preventing the run. PH. | ||