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).
Memo, on hotel letterhead, detailing a new futuristic, frameless car design from Briggs and Tjaarda.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\4\ img193 | |
| Date | 7th December 1935 guessed | |
| HOTELS NEW YORKER & LEXINGTON, NEW YORK · NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI · ADOLPHUS, DALLAS · VAN CLEVE, DAYTON Book-Cadillac Hotel DETROIT Ralph Hitz (RH{R. Hollingworth}) President 3 Yesterday, Ja Park & I visited Briggs and Tjaarda. Their chief designer Tjaarda showed us all the futuristic (stream) Roadster [crossed out] orthodox, a complete new car making 6 bodies on a 125" wheelbase & capable of 110 mph with a Ford V8 engine. A new construction with no frame weighing 2500 lbs & exceedingly stiff torsionally. Weight distribution 2:1 rear to front which must not be essential for good handling, & which necessitates the engine being in front of the rear wheels plane. We have a book of literature on this car. Mr Wilbur Rich Apparently they class their Cadillac G by letter than the G.M. Type on an exclusive basis. Her address is the information blank from Cadillac that is present there unless I was held over when bouncing back. I talked (Abel Horning) I wrote it (under Hives) | ||