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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).
Proposal to order experimental chassis floorboards for the Wraith III, comparing cork core and Balsa core plywood.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 136\5\  scan0116
Date  3rd June 1937
  
WYMAN - SECRET. 1141
WHAT DO WE WANT AT A RESULT OF OUR TESTS ? Pom

Copy to Roy.{Sir Henry Royce}
Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}
Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}

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WRAITH III. CHASSIS FLOORBOARDS.
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We understand that it is proposed to order six experimental sets of chassis floorboards to the latest design for Wraith III. These boards were called for in Rhino Brand cork core plywood. We have since been introduced to the products of Messrs. W. Mallinson & Sons Ltd., 130 to 140, Hackney Road, London, E.2., who produce cork core plywood and Balsa core plywood.

We suggest that we have three sets of cork core boards and three sets of boards having Balsa core, the former can be obtained from either of the two sources.

E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Reply attached
Gudlyman
  
  


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