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).
Requesting the urgent return of one car to facilitate an axle change on another, with handwritten modification instructions.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\3\ scan0122 | |
Date | 16th October 1936 | |
Handwritten: R... Will you deal with this Please. The axle to change: stronger diff: rear casing & hubs. change @ 34-EX. S/W M.X. (crossed out). Typed: Will you please let me know when we can have this car back. It is specially urgently wanted now because we have to change the axle of 3-AZ-22, and cannot lay up both these cars at one time. Therefore we must await the return of 34-EX before taking 3-AZ-22 off the road. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} | ||