Request for an experimental Corniche frame to replace one smashed up in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 113\5\ scan0097 | |
| Date | 12th August 1939 | |
| 1010 + 4009. To Les. {Ivan A. Leslie} Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 14/JH.12.8.39. EXPERIMENTAL FRAMES. We require a Corniche(Bentley streamline(Experimental Streamline Bentley B.23.A.E)d precursor to R Type Continental, never produced) frame to replace the one smashed up in France as soon as ever possible. Will you please get into touch with John Thompsons. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||
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).