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).
Design discrepancy with the B.50 body's boot curve and arranging a delayed replacement.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 111\1\ scan0120 | |
| Date | 25th July 1938 | |
| 80H S/W. To EY, from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} COPY to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}34/D25.7.38. Re: B.50 Body. You will remember on Friday, when we were looking at the blueprint, you showed me a drawing which purported to be the one to which the first body was made and which showed the boot stepped back in reversed curves to the line of the body to destroy the straight line shown in the side plan, and said that Park Wards had made it wrong. I have just seen the Print PD.108, dated the 18th of February, to which this body was made, and which certainly does not show this reversed curve, i.e. it shows the body with the boot as you have got it, and as a matter of fact a later print, reference PD.175, dated the 10th of May, insofar as it refers to the same body, still does not show that indentation or curve. I am wondering, therefore, who has misled you about this. I have now arranged for the second body to have this, but it will mean a fortnight's delay on the eight weeks' promise, I am sure, however, that it is worth it, as I went down and looked at the B.50 car in the Experimental Shop and agree it is ugly. This body will also have four lights instead of six, and possibly the Ford V.8 screen control. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||