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).
Alterations to car body designs for Saloons and Coupes, including bonnet modifications.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 179b\1\ img011 | |
| Date | 16th August 1932 | |
| TO [REDACTED] FROM E.V. COPY TO [REDACTED], H.S. M RE BENTLEY. "A" NO. [REDACTED] X293 X4027 We send herewith N.Sch.3461, 3462 and 3465, shewing the designs of the Four Door Four Light and Six Light Saloons for Peregrine. Your have already had these once but we wish you to send us fresh prints as we have made an alteration to show the bonnet lengthened two inches. We also send herewith N.Sch.3511, the Close Couple Saloon, and N.Sch.3512, The Two Door Close Coupes Drop Head Coupe. On these cars as already stated we shall need a louvred bonnet, and on the designs we have illustrated the same. We have sent you in another memo the complete specifications of these bodies which are for the next five experimental cars, and you have also received a memo giving the chassis specifications and the car finish which they will be required. We shall need to have particulars of your design of the louvred bonnet very soon if we are not to be late with bodies 2, 3 & 4 of the series. E.V. LID{A. J. Lidsey} | ||