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).
Advising of a two-week delay in releasing a car as the new springs required alteration.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\3\ Scan223 | |
| Date | 31th March 1931 | |
| To Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Hdy.{William Hardy} V7960 Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/MJ.31.3.31. 110-DC. Replying to Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}6/V27.3.31. The new springs which we have obtained for this car have had to go back to the makers to be altered. It will be at least another fourteen days before we can release it. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||