Secret memo forwarding an instruction to build six experimental chassis instead of one for testing purposes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 69\2\ scan0087 | |
| Date | 27th June 1924 | |
| X8770 SECRET. To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} - from Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} "Mr.Coverley" Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 8/M27/6/24. E.A.C.II. I give you below copy of a note I have today received from Mr.Cowen. Will you please carry out this instruction? COPY. " With reference to the experimental chassis which is to be " ready about the end of August, CJ. asks me to write you to " give instructions for six of these to be built at once " instead of one, so that they may all be put on the 10,000 " miles experimental test at the same time, with a view to " getting into definite production at the earliest possible " date. - C. " [Signature] | ||
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).