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).
10-week timeline for Park Ward & Co. to build an experimental all-metal body, noting labour supply difficulties.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0432 | |
| Date | 6th May 1936 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/RM.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x204 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hn{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}39/MD/6.5.36. Experimental body with improved entrance. Your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}7/KW/2.5.36. We have seen Park Ward & Co., and they tell us they will want 10 weeks to build the body. Our own feelings are that they will want all this time. We know it is longer than they used to take, but the body of course, is to be all metal, and Park Wards are finding difficulties over the supply of labour. In a day or two, we will send a drawing of the body as it is being built. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||