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).
Negotiations over the supply of springs for a Phantom II chassis for the USA market.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\4\ Scan234 | |
| Date | 24th December 1930 | |
| Handwritten: 87772, H.S. Stamps: RECEIVED, DEC 1930 To WOF. from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} [Struck through] Copy to BH. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} -WOF. [Struck through] re P.II Chassis for USA. Referring to the question of America agreeing to supply their own springs, we supplying the main top leaf, you will doubtless have heard from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} that at the last moment Mr.Beaver seemed inclined to change his mind on this subject. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} brought with him a long letter from him in which amongst other things Mr.Beaver was asking for the allowance for non-supply to be £42 per chassis. [A diagonal line crosses out the following two paragraphs] This of course is ridiculous and we have formerly had information that their cost of making a set of springs for a P.II was somewhere about £8. In order to persuade them to accept our suggestion of their supplying their own springs I added £10 to our cost, making the allowance £30, (and this from their own cost they must know to be very generous). As the result of consulting with Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} on the subject, I have sent Mr.Beaver a cable to the affect that we are convinced that the ultimate and most satisfactory arrangement for all concerned including the customer will be for them to supply the springs, that we cannot possibly increase the allowance of £30 offered and that, if they accept it, we would undertake to ship within a month of the shipment of the first chassis three sets of springs resulting from intensive development work which Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} has in any case to do here as the result of his visit to America. These would be sent as a sample standard for them to work to. I have also made it clear that we must have a decision quickly relative to supply or non-supply of the springs by us. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||