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 coachbuilder Park Ward & Co. Ltd. detailing experimental features and instructions for a chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\5\ Scan111 | |
| Date | 14th November 1930 | |
| COPY TO - HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/RM.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} COPY TO - CX{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}/HN.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} X8992. X. 8992. "CAMACHAHenry Royce's office in West Wittering" WEST WITTERINGHenry Royce's home town CHICHESTER. 14.11.30. Messrs Park Ward & Co. Ltd. Dear Sirs, 27-EX. - SIR HENRY ROYCE. We thank you for your letter of the 12th. inst. We are hoping to let you have the chassis for this car, but as it has a number of experimental features on it, including a special radiator, bonnet, and dash, about which you already know, you will appreciate that we must ask you to observe the strictest precautions against any member of the public having an opportunity of noticing these special features, and we think that you should keep the chassis out of the main portion of your Works, if possible in some unused or partly used shop, during the mounting, and that while the chassis is in your possession the radiator should be covered with one of our Works radiator muffs. The bonnet should not be left on the car, but the engine should be covered with a sheet. We send herewith a blueprint shewing the arrangement of instruments on the instrument board. You will notice there are 1 or 2 things that are not quite standard which represent little things that we are testing on this car. The diameter of the outside of the side hinge when covered by the sheet metal covering is .543 - for practical purposes say .550. We are unable to let you have the bonnet until you receive the chassis on the 26. inst. but we hope this information will enable you to carry on. The bonnet will not have the horizontal louvres which I mentioned to you but will be fitted with vertical louvres of our standard type. We think that you should fit in the scuttle a ventilator - one large one each side - capable of being used as both an extractor and an air collector if this is possible. We do not like 2 small ventilators. Yours faithfully, for Rolls Royce Ltd. (DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}) | ||