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).
Note arranging for a trial of a 12-cylinder Packard car in Paris.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\1\ scan0187 | |
| Date | 17th November 1934 | |
| W/P - Sr. X435 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/KW.17.11.34. We have seen your note offering to let us try a 12-cylinder Packard when Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} is in Paris. He will arrive in Paris on the evening of Monday the 26th, and would like to try the Packard on Tuesday the 27th if this could be arranged. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||