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).
Request to Park Ward & Co. Ltd. for new windscreen rubbers for a Ripple and a Bentley, with a technical explanation of the existing seal's failure.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\5\ scan0247 | |
| Date | 20th September 1940 | |
| C O P Y. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/EAG.2/ET. 20th September, 1940. C.W. Ward, Esq., Messrs. Park Ward & Co. Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, L O N D O N N.W. 10. Dear Mr. Ward, Will you please supply us with new windscreen rubbers for the following cars:- 1-R-1 Ripple 8-B-V Bentley The rubber on 1-R-1 has perished and lets the water through badly. The rubber on 8-B-V is a tubular section which has perished. When the windscreen is in a closed position the tubing is flattened and it has cracked round its outer edge. Due to loss of life in the rubber, the tubing has gone out of the groove in the windscreen frame. I have given you this explanation as I think possibly it may be of use to you on some future occasion. It appears to me that a tubular section as a windscreen seal is unsatisfactory, due to flattening of the tubular section. I am asking Roy{Sir Henry Royce} to send you an official order for these. Yours sincerely, | ||