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 from coachbuilder Barker & Co. regarding the replacement of broken front plates on a Barker Cabriolet and requesting the body number.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\1\ scan0213 | |
| Date | 18th June 1926 | |
| From BARKER & CO. (Coachbuilders), LTD. 66-68 South Audley Street London, W.1 Telephone 2420-21-22-23 Grosvenor. Telegrams "Mobilia, Audley, London." To Messrs. ROLLS-ROYCE, LTD. 14 and 15 Conduit Street London, W.1 DERBY X8830 Please quote Ref. HYN/RJP DEAR Sirs, 18th June 1926 Re Barker Cabriolet. Referring to my inspection of this body, I should be glad if you would kindly take off the broken front plates to the scuttle, and have these forwarded to me, when I will send you a new pair to replace them. I phoned Mr. Barnes at Conduit Street, requesting that the next time he was speaking to you, to ask you to do this - so perhaps you have already attended to it. Our Works would like to know whether you or we mounted the body on the chassis, and also to know the body No., which you will find on a small round plate inside the door shuts, or underneath the front seat. I hope I shall get all this information, with the broken plates by Monday next, so that I can bring the matter up at the Works Conference on Tuesday. Yours faithfully, BARKER & Co. (Coachbuilders) LTD. H.Y. Nutt MANAGING DIRECTOR. | ||