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).
The subframe details and chassis allocation for an experimental limousine for R.R.I.A.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\3\ Scan241 | |
| Date | 28th March 1930 | |
| SECRET. 25 EX EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/28.3.30. TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} EXPERIMENTAL LIMOUSINE FOR R.R.I.A. We are awaiting a detail of the new Expl. Subframe side member to send to ParkWards before they can commence work. Could you let us have this by return of post. We are anticipating the subframe to arrive in about seven days time, and it is this condition that we are able to get delivery of the body by May 18th. We suggest that the subframe crossmember and heel board be cut away on both sides with clearances to pass the battery so as not to give away the fact that the chassis has been handed. We enclose herewith a specification of the coachwork. Would HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} kindly allocate a chassis number for this car and also for the first L.H. car which is having the Barker Close Coupled Saloon. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||