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).
Letter from Park Ward & Co. Ltd. requesting figures and drawings concerning the effect of increased frontal area on speed.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 161\1\ scan0225 | |
| Date | 3rd October 1938 | |
| P. W. & Co. LTD. CONTD. -2- W.A. Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd. 3. 10. 1938. in a position to ascertain approximately the number of bodies that could be sold with the characteristics as mentioned above. I should assume it a great favour if you could send me photographs or drawings of the above body, and also your figures as to what effect the increase in height of the frontal area would have on the figure of speed etc. Yours faithfully, For PARK WARD & CO. LTD. DIRECTOR. | ||