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).
10,000-mile car test in France, and a request for agreement to hire two additional testers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\5\ scan0058 | |
| Date | 13th March 1933 | |
| X3994. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/MA.13.3.33. The decision to run 18.G4., 10,000 miles in France means that we shall have a Bentley and the 20/25Hp. running at the same time. The programme with improved Phantom, J.3. and Peregrine means that we shall be running two cars there for some time. This means that we shall require some extra help, we would like your agreement to engage two men as testers at standard rate. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||