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).
Internal memorandum discussing the challenges of coordinating with coachbuilders for the Sports Phantom design.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 65a\1\ scan0108 | |
| Date | 21th September 1927 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} *7770 EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/21.9.27. RE. SPORTS PHANTOM. X.8774 X.8830 Many thanks for your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/LG19.9.27 as it makes the situation more clear, I had a note from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} on Monday asking me to take the recommendations of the London discussion up with R.{Sir Henry Royce} ~~at~~ and to arrange to go up and discuss the detail designs with them, at once. I think that the suggestion will provide the best possible results and am backing it up. Mr. Royce has not taken to it too well but I believe he will agree eventually, consequently I cannot do anything at the moment. He has ~~wro~~ written a long letter to BJ. and is seeing him tomorrow. The situation is very difficult to handle down here. Mr. Royce dislikes the idea of my leaving this office to pay visits to coachbuilders, and therefore welcomed the idea of your taking the job on believing that all the work could have been done by drawings and letters, on similar lines to the chassis work. All these troubles would be overcome if there were someone on the London coachbuilding staff who might be capable of coming here, studying our drawings and then taking them away and seeing that the coachbuilder provided our requirements. He would need to be someone not of the Sales or Coachbuilders party, but belonging rather to no faction save that of progress along the lines indicated by R.{Sir Henry Royce} However, I am afraid that we are a long way from getting this. If all goes well I hope to go to London early next week ~~at~~ and will keep you informed of what happens. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||