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).
Proposing a two-fold satchel with handles as an alternative design for the car's tool kit.
| Identifier | Morton\M11\ img208 | |
| Date | 1st September 1919 | |
| R - TOOL ROLL - ALTER Sir Hercules Langlish, recommendation 2 To DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} Copy to FJ. 40/50 ORIGINAL. X.3634 RE TOOL KIT. As an alternative for the tool kit for the car, I think we might arrange to get the tools easily stowed away in a two-fold satchel instead of a three-fold. This could be fitted with handles like a bag, and would be easier to lift out and open. This would be somewhat after the style of a brief bag as recommended by Sir Hercules Langlish. Considering the increase in handiness and the fact that it ought not to take more than half the leather, I am sure it would be worth while experimenting with. The present arrangement is unhandy, and requires too much ground to lay it out; it is irritating. I should be glad to know what the present folder, at the present price of leather, costs. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||