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).
Sending chassis number 10-EX for inspection trials and experiments at the Works.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 70\1\ scan0022 | |
Date | 15th November 1929 | |
S/W (Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair})...from H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} X8774. H3/GD15.11.29. Re: Chassis No. 10-EX. C. has handed to me your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/ADS.11.29.. The Inspection Trials car I have decided should be sent to you, in order that you may try out certain safe experiments, is 99-FH, a Barker Sedanca in use by St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} I am communicating with St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} in order that he may be prepared to arrange direct with you a suitable time for his car to come to the Works. We hope you will rig on it whatever you want to try expeditiously, in order that St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} may not be without a car for too long. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} RECEIVED 16 NOV 1929 | ||