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).
The urgent requirement to fit a camouflaging plate to the radiator of car 19-G4.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 107\1\ scan0086 | |
| Date | 4th November 1931 | |
| To Lp.{Mr Lappin} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x7960 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}8/MJ.4.11.31. 19-G4. Car. We have suddenly realised that you may be running 19-G4, car without a camouflaging plate to the bottom of the radiator. This car, of course, has the deeper radiator and Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} laid down that it must always be run with a black plate covering the lower portion of the matrix. If you have not got this plate will you please arrange to have something fitted immediately. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||