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).
Delay of a car body from coachbuilder Hoopers due to an influenza epidemic.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 12\3\ X704-0052 | |
| Date | 16th February 1927 | |
| TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} X7830. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/M16.2.27. BODY FOR FIRST EAC. 7. You will recollect that Hoopers promised the body for the above car for the 17th inst. They inform us that due to an epidemic of influenza they cannot keep this date, and may possibly be a week late. They are giving us a further date by letter. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} RECEIVED FEB 18 1927 | ||