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).
Costing and pricing for a Clayton Interior Heater.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 137\1\ scan0137 | |
| Date | 5th October 1932 | |
| LID{A. J. Lidsey} S/W(Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid{A. J. Lidsey}) c. to Cost Dept. c. " Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} RECEIVED [stamp] CxIO/KW5.10.32. Clayton Interior Heater. We thank you for your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lidl/MA4.10.32 with information from the Clayton Dewandre Company as to the cost. The figures they quote are apparently the figures to this Company, so perhaps you would kindly get the Cost Department to confirm that this is so, and to let us know what price we should have to charge the customer for it. We of course understand that the cost of connecting up the heater to the engine with copper pipes and the to the electrical system would be extra, and quite appreciate that at present it is perhaps a little difficult to say how much extra this would be. If at the same time the Cost Department is able to give us any rough idea, it would help us in talking to customers at Olympia who are likely to bring up the question of interior heaters for cars. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} | ||