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).
Requesting an alteration to a car's specification for the frame to have a bent type front pan.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\1\ scan0205 | |
| Date | 1st September 1938 | |
| c Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HMW c Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD{Frank Dodd - Bodies} γ 408² To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} c. Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}3/MH.{M. Huckerby}1.9.38. 11.B.V. We have had a letter from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} asking us to alter the specification we sent you for this car, in that he wants the frame to have the bent type front pan. If you will let Leslie know when the parts are ready which we supply for the frame he will arrange for its delivery accordingly. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||