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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).
Experimental car body shell damaged by bombing during the war.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 117\3\  scan0216
Date  26th November 1940
  
S/W.
Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
Noted EW 28/11/40

ES. The Bosch must dislike streamlining. Rms

Hn{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}6/ES.26.11.40.

Experimental Body - Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/ET.23.11.40.

1021

The body which Bs.{A J. Barnes - Assistant Manager} has in mind is a Corniche body frame which you had sent to P.W. & Co.

When the latter got busy on war work this shell, with a number of bodies in hand for S., were moved to Lillie Hall for storage purposes.

The Van Vooren shell, with some of the bodies belonging to S., suffered damage when Lillie Hall was bombed.

The Van Vooren shell suffered severely and is now nothing but a number of bits and pieces which we have sent back to P.W. & Co. for the time being.

Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}
  
  


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