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).
Letter to Park Ward & Co. Ltd. with instructions for finishing two experimental saloon car bodies.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 102\2\ scan0097 | |
| Date | 24th May 1932 | |
| Copy to HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} E HH. LID{A. J. Lidsey} X295. XXXXX "CAMACHAHenry Royce's office in West Wittering". WEST WITTERINGHenry Royce's home town. CHICHESTER. 24th. May 1932. Messrs Park Ward & Co. Ltd. Dear Sirs, EXPERIMENTAL BODIES. 25HP. WIDE FRAME 4 DOOR SALOON. We wish you to go ahead and finish this body, wings, and runningboards, complete for Derby to collect. The only outstanding feature is the instrument board. We wish you to fit an instrument board 10" deep, and straight at the bottom. This board should be left unpolished so that the instruments may be fitted in Derby, the board cut to shape and polished by themselves. * Will you please notify us when the body will be ready for delivery. BENTLEY 'A' 4 DOOR SALOON. We would like to have delivery of this body, complete with wings and runningboards, at the very latest 3 weeks from today. You have already received all the instructions you require except for the painting and trimming, and the instrument board. The former instructions will follow in a day or so. The instrument board should be fitted as a plain board 10" deep in the centre, straight at the bottom, so that the instruments may be fitted, the board cut to shape and polished, by Derby. Yours faithfully, for ROLLS ROYCE LTD. (DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}) * With respect to the interior body lights, companions, ash trays, and cigar lighters, we wish all this equipment to be the same as supplied with the stock 25HP. saloon. | ||