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 to Park Ward & Co. confirming agreements on body modifications, including a scuttle ventilator and mounting brackets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\1\ scan0092 | |
| Date | 1st March 1935 | |
| Copy to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 4304 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Dodd E/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/MN. 1st.March, 1935. Messrs. Park Ward & Co., 473, High Road, Willesden, London, N.W.10. For the attention of Mr.Ward. Dear Sirs, We wish to confirm our conversation with you during our last visit to your Works. 1. It was agreed that due to the short scuttle on this car a special small Top Scuttle Ventilator be devised, possibly using either screw operation or a Ford Windscreen operating mechanism. The ventilator will open forwards. The instrument board may have to be nearly vertical. A design will be made for us to review. 2. We left you prints of the revised body mounting LeC 4365, LeC 4362, LeC 4364, LeC 4346, and LeC 4358. Due to the necessity on this car of providing for the ordinary brake lever and the pull-up type lever brackets LeC 4346 cannot be used and the drawing should be destroyed. On LeC 4382, herewith, we show the new brackets and their positions, which will be the same either side of the chassis. We have redesigned the bracket at the 3rd.chassis crossmember and this is shown on LeC 4382. We agree that at the rear support a .312 plate be imprisoned in the body, to be drilled and tapped to take two .312 diameter set screws when the body is in position. A tubular stay to be fitted to take the thrust to the wheelarch section. Contd: | ||