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).
Proposal and logistics for sending the 8-EX experimental Phantom car to France for a 10,000-mile test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 76\1\ scan0323 | |
| Date | 17th September 1925 | |
| X677 To HK.{Col. T. Harker - Sales} Paris. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG17.9.25. +8940a X677 10,000 MILES TEST IN FRANCE. With reference to HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales}6/MM15.9.25. We are proposing to send 8-EX experimental Phantom car to France at the end of next week. We anticipate it will be Friday the 25th. inst., although at the moment it is impossible to say for certain. We should like to know particulars of how you propose we shall bring this car to France. Do you propose carrying out the same plan as we did with the previous cars which were sent out through the General Transport Co.? Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||