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).
Failures on a Barker body fitted to a 10,000-mile test car and arranging for them to view the repairs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 73\1\ scan0036 | |
| Date | 5th June 1924 | |
| To DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 49840 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}10/LG5.6.24. RE. 10,000 MILES TEST CARS. X9840 The body which ran on 98-NK. was a Barker body and was fitted up by Messrs. Barkers. The wings and all the attachments were made, supplied and fitted by them. We have arranged that when the car passes through London tomorrow on its way to France, that Barkers shall be given an opportunity of seeing how we have had to patch their work owing to failures. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||