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).
Request to borrow an anatomically shaped Park Ward front seat to be used as a sample for other coachbuilders.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\2\ scan0113 | |
| Date | 1st July 1938 | |
| [Handwritten top left] 404 [Typed top left] Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD{Frank Dodd - Bodies} at W. [Handwritten top centre, strikethrough] Agree to 2nd Body seats being sent Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} [Handwritten top right] 404 [Typed top right] Hnl/AH.1.7.38. [Handwritten top right, strikethrough] Despatched OK FD{Frank Dodd - Bodies} Park Ward Front Seats: ---- We understand the bodies supplied to you for 1-B.V. and 2-B.V. have anatomically shaped front seats with particularly thin squabs. We want similar seats in our Show cars. Of course, not all the bodies for our Stands at [strikethrough] this [/strikethrough] [handwritten] the [/handwritten] Show will be built by Park Ward & Co., who built the bodies for 1-B.V and 2-B.V. To the other coachbuilders we would like to show a sample anatomical seat for their guidance in making up similar seats. Unfortunately we here in London are not yet taking delivery of any such seats from Park Ward so we are compelled to ask you whether you can lend us the front passenger seat of one of the two cars you have for a period of, say, a week. Will you please let us know what you can do. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||