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).
Letter to Park Ward & Co Ltd. confirming agreements on the production of Bentley 'A' Model bodies.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0021 | |
| Date | 15th August 1932 | |
| ATTENTION OF MR. PARK. LID{A. J. Lidsey} x293. ORIGINAL CAMACHAHenry Royce's office in West Wittering WEST WITTERINGHenry Royce's home town. NR. CHICHESTER. SUSSEX. AUG. 15.th, 1932. SVI/15.8.32. Messrs Park Ward & Co Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden. W.10. Dear Sirs, RE: EXPERIMENTAL BODIES. We wish to confirm the following agreements which were made verbally during the writer's last visit to our works. BENTLEY "A" MODEL BODIES. We understand that you agree to produce the bodies referred to in our SV2/10.8.32. in accordance with the designs and specifications supplied and in the order therein given and that the dates fixed will be the delivery dates subject to there being no delay. We confirm that the first body, the four door saloon is to be finished in Ching Blue, the colour used on GPT.46. Humphrey Butler, and that the same woodwork, leather, headcloth and carpet be used. You will supply the usual paint to enable Derby to paint the bonnet etc. On the next body you will try a set of Silent Travel Locks of which you have received a sample. On all the bodies we would like you to fit recessed hand grips in the lower door fillets in the place of the pull-to handles. We would like these to have a metal lining. Since Mr Honeyman is interested in this feature we suggest that you consult him. On the drop head coupe we wish you to consider the use of the new Silent Travel Head Fitting to the Screen. On this body, N.Sch.3512, we agree to not use the outside head fittings. When at the Carlton Carriage Co. Works where a special feature is made of this type of coachwork we noticed that the doors were not being carried through to the step as drawn, but were not taken much below the floor level, the bottom of the door being curved to blend with the curve of the step. There appears to be two good reasons for this. One is that the door which is unavoidably large and heavy is reduced in weight, and so the door hinges are less strained and the other is that a substantial bottom side to the body can be used. This is an all important feature on a body of this class in which the doors virtually cut the body in two. We therefore wish you to consider this modification to our original design. Derby have pointed out that on the body for Bentley "A" | ||