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 coachbuilders Park Ward & Co. Ltd confirming arrangements to send staff to mount a Bentley 'B' Saloon body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0168 | |
| Date | 5th July 1933 | |
| PARK WARD & CO LTD COACHBUILDERS OFFICIALLY APPOINTED RETAILERS OF ROLLS ROYCE CARS (SHOWROOMS -- 40 CONDUIT STREET) 473 HIGH ROAD WILLESDEN LONDON N·W·10 DIRECTORS: A·T·ROBERTS·W·M·PARK·C·W·WARD W·C·THORNE·J·A·FALCONER·C·A·C·FALCONER. NAT/MO. TELEPHONE WILLESDEN 2595--6--7 TELEGRAMS WARENPAR·WILLROAD·LONDON 5th July, 1933. Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Nightingale Road, Derby. Dear Sirs, Re Black Bentley 'B' Saloon. We acknowledge with thanks your letter of the 4th inst., requesting us to send men to Derby in order to mount this body on the new chassis. We are assuming that you will require only one bodymaker, one mounter and one painter and we are making arrangements for them to present themselves at your Works tomorrow, which we trust will be quite suitable. Yours faithfully, for PARK WARD & CO. LTD. M.U. Thompson. Handwritten notes: Top of page: x470n Centre of page: LID{A. J. Lidsey} Bottom of page: Painter will not be present until Friday. | ||