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 Park Ward & Company proposing a factory visit to review body construction methods.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\1\ scan0144 | |
| Date | 3rd November 1937 | |
| 1021. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/R.{Sir Henry Royce} 3rd November, 1937. J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} A.{Mr Adams} Falconer, Esq., Messrs. Park Ward & Company, 473, High Road, Willesden, N.W.10. Dear Mr. Falconer, We have been reviewing recently the trend of modern body construction. As you know, we are interested in getting bodies for less money. We have employed Mr. A.E. Green in a consulting capacity to review the different types of construction for us, and he has already gone fairly thoroughly into various types of pressed steel bodies and composite construction. He has, however, no experience whatever of the Park Ward manufacturing method, and if you agree we should like to bring him down to the Factory and let him have a look at what you are doing. Monday or Tuesday next, November 8th or 9th, would suit us best for the visit. Yours sincerely, | ||