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).
Disputed account with Park Wards regarding coachbuilding work and associated costs.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 134\4\ scan0075 | |
Date | 15th March 1933 | |
W/S. To Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} x293 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}10/KT.15.3.33. Hn{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}3/I/14.3.33. You do not give particulars of the account in question, hence it is difficult for us to give the information you require. If the account covers three men working over a period of about 9 - 10 days during the latter part of February last, then the whole of the account covers mounting the drop head Bentley 'A' coupé, for which of course we expect to pay. We do not know here what arrangements have been arrived at between you and Park Wards with regard to the cost of rectification of defects in our bodies, also it is an open question as to what work comes under this heading. The biggest body alteration (carried out on three bodies) was fitting stiffening plates to the central door pillars, all this work was included in the previous two accounts rendered. We do not think that Park Wards ought to stand the cost of any of the work done up here for the following reasons - (1) They get nothing at all financially out of any work done up here, (Charging only the men's time and expenses). (2) They have in every case sent up their men to us at a few hours notice without raising the slightest objection. (3) They have not charged at all for materials used in the various modifications we have had carried out. (4) Had this work been done by our local coachbuilders it would have cost us very much more money. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||