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).
Letter to Thos. Firth & John Brown Ltd regarding a delay in ordering thicker plate springs for a Bentley car due to uncertainty about body weights.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154\1\ scan0052 | |
| Date | 30th January 1933 | |
| 84479. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/KT. January 30th 1933. Thos.Firth & John Brown Ltd, Atlas & Norfolk Works, Sheffield 1. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your letter of the 26th inst, ref HWP/3/33, together with the drawing of the thicker plate springs for the Bentley car. There is some doubt at the moment as to the body weights of this car, and we are therefore holding up the ordering of further springs for the time being. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS ROYCE LIMITED. | ||