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).
Summary of cost figures from a conference discussing reductions in vehicle body costs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 161a\1\ scan0071 | |
| Date | 12th February 1940 | |
| 1381, 1021 & R's Policy file SUMMARY OF COST FIGURES GIVEN BY WARD AT CONFERENCE ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH, 1940. ACTUAL REDUCTION DUE TO TOOLS £ s. d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} No Tools. Wings 18 12 6 Panel Body without Doors 26 10 - Component parts, Pillars, Wheel Arches. Bottom Sides, Cant Rails 13 - - (Lab.) and framing and panelling 1 - - (Mat.) of doors. Overheads 13 - - No assembly. £ 72 2 6 Motor Panels. All the same parts 52 12 - Tool cost (over 500) 15 5 8 £ 67 17 8 REDUCTION IN BODY COST OVER AND ABOVE THE £266. Present Cost of Shell Proposed Cost of Shell £ 54 4 - £40 inc. tools £10 4 4 - (Tools over spread over £50,000. ( 1000 £ 58 8 - SAVING £18. 8. 0d (ctd:- | ||