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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).
List of body numbers for Experimental Wraiths and a Bentley, with a report on bodywork issues from Chateauroux.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 117\1\  scan0182
Date  24th February 1938
  
1021
also 2602

W/S - Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}7/JH.24.2.38.

In answer to your request for the body numbers of Experimental and other Wraiths, we give below the complete list which also includes the latest Bentley body.

24.G.VI. ...... Body No.4341.
25.G.VI ...... " " 4285.
26.G.VI. ...... " " 4249.
27.G.VI. ...... " " 4319.
28.G.VI. ...... " " 4363
29.G.VI. ...... " " 4364.
WXA1. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} ...... " " 4396.
WXA2. Green. ...... " " B.289.

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6.B.IV.

Further news from Chateauroux as follows -

BODYWORK.
"Trouble experienced with brackets from body to rear tubular crossmember between rear dumb irons. The rubber packings worked out of the N.S. bracket and the O.S. bracket was broken .

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}
  
  


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