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).
Requesting modifications to a car, including fitting Terraplane engine mountings and removing parts for a vacuum-assisted clutch.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 107\1\ scan0213 | |
| Date | 16th April 1934 | |
| X 7960 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}2/KW.16.4.34. 20-G-IV. We have borrowed this car from Sales in order to try out the Terraplane engine mounting. Will you therefore please fit the front mounting to LEC.3852, and rear mounting to LEC.3862. At the same time, will you please remove all the parts connected with the vacuum assisted clutch, including the clutch trunnion shaft. We shall send these parts to Cricklewood in order that they can be fitted to C's new car. Will you also please fit a standard carburetter air valve and let us have the one at present on the car. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||