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).
Testing of car 6EX in cold weather, reliability, and design modifications.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 183\M22\ img145 | |
| Date | 13th January 1922 | |
| [Handwritten at top] R INVITES Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} TO BRING 6EX. AFTER MODIFICATIONS TO HIM AT L.C. 6EX. DURING THE COLDEST OF THE WEATHER [Handwritten Reference] R1/M13.1.22. NEATER [Stamps] ORIGINAL RECEIVED RE 6 EX [Header] To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} From R.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to Her. ✓ c. to EFC. ✓ c. to EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} c. to Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} c. to Wy. [Body] Replying to your memo. to E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/LG9.1.22., I hope to be well enough to see you about the 20th inst. I think 6 EX. had better go to Derby while I am at Le CanadelHenry Royce's French residence unless you would like to fit this as U.S.A. standard and try it across France during the coldest of the weather, if so fetch it at once. If it went across I would use it when there and pay half the expenses. My memo. to Mr. Wormald was intended rather to refer to how you were getting on with perfection, reliability of running, miss-fires, silence, etc, rather than production. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} can go to London the week-end suggested but I am pushing to give you all the designs you require. There seems little things that require attention from here, modifications to one thing upsetting another. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||