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. regarding modifications to the front wings for model 12.B.5.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\5\ scan0168 | |
| Date | 21th January 1939 | |
| O.Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} 404 21st. January 1939. BY.2/N. CONFIDENTIAL. Messrs.Park Ward & Co.Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, London N.W.10. Dear Sir, Re: Front Wings - 12.B.5. We send herewith a print of FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}361, shewing the Headlamps, Horns, and Wingstays for 12.B.5. In order that the spherical socket may land on a convenient place on the front wing inner valance the junction of the latter has had to be lifted 1.750" above your original wing form given on the tracing, and 1.000" above the similar wing on 11.B.5. shewn on FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}350. Longer lamp tubes and a modified socket are shewn. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. CHIEF ENGINEER - CHASSIS. | ||