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 Alan discussing car models, modifications, and the difficulty with hood springs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\1\ scan0012 | |
| Date | 16th August 1938 | |
| -34A 339/367 D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} 16th August 1938. Dear Alan, Very many thanks for your letter. We have turned down the Sedancar and all its works. - Certainly, I want some more years self-driving in the fresh air and the idea of sitting in the back with a chauffeur would nauseate me. I am very much obliged for what you say about the hood springs. The "Babe" and "Bombastic One" have been down several times with specimen cars, measurements etc., etc., but I have not had the estimate or specification, although they have been promised on and off for the last week or so. The "Bombastic One" has gone for a holiday but his chief man, Simmonds, (who we like very much better, and who seems perfectly capable) is now saying that there is going to be a great deal of difficulty over these springs and he does not know whether he can make them as easy as the Packard was. I told him this morning that if there is any doubt that this cannot be done he had better chuck up the job, because this is one of the chief reasons that we are thinking of getting a new car. The "Babe" has been impressing it on them ever since we first saw them, and I made it my first and most important point, the argument being that although I could get up the hood comfortably now, in five years I should be | ||