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).
Letter to Park Ward & Co. Ltd. about making a wooden model of a radiator and a car mock-up for a Long Wheelbase Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 112\1\ scan0034 | |
| Date | 25th March 1938 | |
| c. to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. c. to Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} 25th.March 1938. Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}20/N. 804 Messrs.Park Ward & Co.Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, London N.W.10. Confidential. For the attention of C.Falconer,Esq., Dear Sir, Re: Long Wheelbase Bentley - 1.B.50. We are now able to send to you prints of PD.131 ( four sheets) giving you full particulars of the radiator for the above car. We wish you to make a wooden model of this radiator, complete with its grille, as quickly as possible. With this object in view we have made our schemes full size and fully dimensioned, so that the model can be made directly from them. We have taken the precaution of supplying you with white prints so that any dimensions not given, may be scaled. At the earliest possible date we would like to see a mock up of the complete car, similar to that which you did for 1.B.3. with such success, in order that we may form an opinion of the appearance, and correct any errors. As the body would appear to be the longest distance part of the mock up, we would suggest that it may be necessary to rig up and let us have to view, a mock up of the radiator, bonnet, wings and lamps etc. without a body, if possible we would like to do this before Easter. Cont'd..... | ||