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).
New experimental saloon body for a 3.5-Litre Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0240 | |
| Date | 31th January 1934 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} x204 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re 3½-Litre Bentley. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}11/E31.1.34 Copy to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}E. BY.Dr.Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} I am in receipt of Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}10/MJ.26.1.34. I imagine from your memo. that the body is going to be repaired and that the second paragraph indicates that you would like a new saloon body to be put in hand for an experimental car to replace the open body which you have got. I am quite agreeable to this and I imagine that the body is the one which Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} has been writing things about just recently which, as you say, is to be a little larger. This body, I understand, will go on the chassis at present fitted with an open body and the chassis will be re-built to embody the items as per your list and form the next 10,000 miles car with a view to the standardisation of new features after the first 400. I should be glad if you would say how soon you will be ready for the body so that Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} can say if it can be ready in time. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||