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).
Request for a list of chassis numbers for experimental cars to aid with correspondence filing.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 123\4\ scan0002 | |
Date | 7th May 1930 | |
HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} X180. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/W7.5.30. EXPERIMENTAL CARS. It would help us to deal with the filing of our correspondence if you could tell us the chassis numbers of those experimental cars which you still have. We believe we are keeping carefully filed records of cars which you have sold. [Handwritten list below] 18EX. 22EX 24EX? L.H. Chasses 19EX 23EX 28EX DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} 20EX 12GIV 14GIV 16GIV 17GIV W.O's Car Occasionally used for EXPTS. [Circular stamp over 16GIV reads RECEIVED with handwritten notations 'SH' and 'MW'] | ||