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).
The cost implications and production delay of introducing a lightened carrier.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\3\ scan0216 | |
| Date | 26th May 1937 guessed | |
| -2- however, we wait for this lightened carrier there will be some months delay in the customer receiving the benefit of the wide entrance body. We have ascertained that if tools and dies are obtained for parts in the present gauge not more than 30% of the cost would be required to put them right for use with the thinner gauge, and we suggest that if the lightened carrier is satisfactory and introduced the saving of 15/- per chassis would more than cover the tool cost. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Att: LeC.5549. | ||