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).
Cost comparison table for different types of car body construction.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\1\ scan0147 | |
| Date | 1st November 1937 guessed | |
| DIE AND BODY COSTS. TABLE DATA: Column Headers: Die Costs. Cost of Shell in White. Cost of Finished Body. Cost of Finished Body Plus Die Cost Spread over 5,000 Bodies. Currency Headers (for the cost columns): £ £. s. d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} £. s. d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} £. s. d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} Row A.{Mr Adams} All steel shell Die Costs: 76,000 Cost of Shell in White: 28 - - Cost of Finished Body: 120 - - Cost of Finished Body Plus Die Cost...: 135.4 - Row B. All steel front end, sills and centre pillars, all panels die pressed reinforced with timber. Die Costs: 55,000 Cost of Shell in White: 36 - - Cost of Finished Body: 128 - - Cost of Finished Body Plus Die Cost...: 139 - - Row C. All steel front end, sills and centre pillars die pressed, panels semi-pressed finished by hand, reinforced with timber. Die Costs: 20,000 Cost of Shell in White: 42.10.- Cost of Finished Body: 134.10.- Cost of Finished Body Plus Die Cost...: 138.10.- Row D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} Park Ward construction Die Costs: - Cost of Shell in White: 70.- - Cost of Finished Body: 162 - - Cost of Finished Body Plus Die Cost...: - - - | ||