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).
Secret internal memo urging progress on new side levers and the construction of a light cabriolet body on a steel underframe.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67\1\ scan0125 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1925 | |
| 48380 To AJS. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} } FROM R.{Sir Henry Royce} BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} SECRET. R13/M3.3.25. c. to CJ. BJ. c. to E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} RG.{Mr Rowledge} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 'V' SERIES. X.8830 X.8380 To me it is absolutely necessary to at once get on the new side levers which are so much neater for room, and give the coachbuilders a chance to make a neat and strong scheme past them. They also permit the use of the steel underframe. The body you are proposing for my use - i.e. open, with glass windows, and Beatonson head, (light cabriolet) with 4 doors must be built on our steel underframe. I do not know what is delaying this. Will AJS. and DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} report? R.{Sir Henry Royce} [Watermark: 1504 MADE AT CROXLEY] | ||