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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 coachbuilder Thrupp & Maberly regarding slow progress and wheelarch issues on a Sports Saloon Bentley 'B' body.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 84\1\  scan0071
Date  21th January 1933
  
HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
8293.
EVI/21.1.33.
LID{A. J. Lidsey}
See me
ATTENTION OF MR. REYNOLDS.
Messrs Thrupp & Maberly Ltd.
108, Cricklewood Lane. N.W.2.
Dear Sirs,
RE SPORTS SALOON BENTLEY "B".
This is to confirm the remarks made by the writer during his last visit to your works in connection with the above body.
We are a little disappointed at the slow progress which has been made with respect to this body since you started on the full sized drawing early in December last. You will remember that the date of delivery was given provisionally as the first week in February.
The writer does not wish you to take this remark to be a complaint, as he fully realises all the difficulties which have had to be overcome, but he does hope that you will be able to make much greater speed as soon as you get over the wheelarch trouble.
In this connection he would suggest that you at once start to make a model arch on the lines discussed during his visit and at once inform him if any difficulties are encountered when he will be delighted to call on you immediately to give you the value of his experience of providing these same arches at another source.
If this work develops into what I believe you have already been told it may do we shall consider very seriously the manufacture of these sheet steel wheelarches in our factory in Derby, and later on we shall ask you supply the writer with a sample to take to them for their comments.
We are informing our Experimental Dept. that the body will not be available during the first week in February and are asking them to tell us the latest date of delivery which they can agree to without delaying their plans.
Yours faithfully,
for Rolls-Royce Ld.
[Handwritten on left margin]: Can you tell me this please?
  
  


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