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 Messrs. Park Ward & Co. Ltd. regarding paint colour, moulding, and leather patterns for a Close Coupled Saloon.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\1\ scan0025 | |
| Date | 8th February 1939 | |
| c. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} HOH CONFIDENTIAL. 8th. February 1939. BY.11/N. Messrs. Park Ward & Co.Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, London N.W.10. Dear Sirs, Re: Close Coupled Saloon. 11.B.5. We thank you for the patterns of red and grey returned under separate cover. It has been decided to paint this car in pale grey all over, the grey to be the same as that of 7.B.5. Will you please send us a pattern of what you think that grey is, so that we can check it up against the car. We would like a small half round chromium moulding added such as we proposed for the B.50 mock-up. Will you please send us some patterns of red leather, after the style of the Vaumal pattern herewith, or a little more pastel. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. CHIEF ENGINEER - CHASSIS. | ||