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 memo about a revised print for front wings, requesting the destruction of the original drawing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\2\ scan0044 | |
| Date | 19th August 1938 | |
| Secret. 1369 To Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}.. from By/Mtn. c.c. Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/JD.{J. Draper - Frames} BY/Mtnl2/N.19.8.38. Front Wings - 2.B.50. We sent to you a few days ago a print of PD.241 shewing the clearances for the front wings of 2.B.50, so that we could use either a 56.26" front track or a 58.500 front track and the car raised 1.000. We are sending you a revised print of PD.241 on which we have moved the spare wheel forward .250". Would you kindly send this print to Messrs.Park Ward and ask them to destroy the original one. BY/Mtn. | ||