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 C.W. Ward of Park Ward Ltd. discussing Bentley body specifications and materials like Perspex.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\1\ scan0290 | |
| Date | 10th July 1941 | |
| 404 10th July, 1941. Ru.3/MT. C.W. WARD, Esq., Messrs. Park Ward Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, LONDON. N.W. 10. Dear Ward, Thank you for your letter. Green will have discussed the new Bentley body further during his visit. I have had various opinions about Perspex. Some people say that, treated with care, it is remarkably good. I think we should get some experience with it. It was of course fitted to the windows in the "Corniche". I have got a very attractive specification for the chassis, and if you can get 50 lbs. off the weight of the body with lighter luggage grid etc., we shall have a 200 H.P. car for less than 22 cwts., without having sacrificed any of the refinements which customers rightly demand. I note what you say about the 8-cylinder, but I still think that it would be good policy to keep the engine covered while the car is in the shop. I am looking forward to our golf match when you come here. Yours sincerely, | ||