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 John Marston Ltd. regarding the production scheme for Silver Dawn, Wraith 80, and Continental radiators.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 150\2\ scan0246 | |
| Date | 20th June 1939 | |
| 8 1280 c. to HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /WSC. {W. S. Cassel} EXPERIMENTAL DEPARTMENT. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Ed. {J. L. Edwards} 4/JH. 20th. June, 1939. John Marston Ltd., WOLVERHAMPTON. For the attention of Mr. Steadman. Dear Sirs, We are sending herewith a print of the scheme for Silver Dawn radiators to FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 446, and we should be glad if you would make up two radiator units to this arrangement. This is a Rolls-Royce radiator, and consequently shell and shutters will be made by us. The general construction is similar to B.30, with the exception that a Wraith 80 top tank with a modified water inlet is used. Shell and shutters are Wraith 80. We also require a third Wraith 80 radiator similar to that second radiator of this type produced, and incorporating all the latest modifications - i.e. wider and longer yoke, longer block etc. Six Continental B.V.'s. are also being produced, and these will require radiators of the type already produced for the 'Corniche'. A modification is in hand, however, consisting of small steel stiffening plates in the yoke at the connection for the lamp brackets, and we are suggesting you hold the yoke up until details are completed. For this radiator we are sending a dimensioned scheme, which will probably be completed in a day or two. We are going to pass an official order through the Order Office to cover these radiators, and it will follow immediately. It has been decided to send the first Ripple car to France with a Bentley radiator and as a result the Ripple | ||