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 coachbuilder Park Ward regarding an issue with limousine body mounting brackets being too narrow.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\1\ scan0075 | |
| Date | 13th February 1935 | |
| Copy to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 4304 E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}5/MN. 13th. February, 1935. Messrs. Park Ward, 473, High Road, Willesden, London, N.W.10. Dear Sirs, We have now mounted the enclosed limousine body which you built for chassis 31-EX and have experienced some trouble with the two body supporting brackets which are inside the sheet steel wheel arch. The centre distance between these brackets measured across the chassis was practically half an inch too small, consequently the brackets would not pass outside the chassis frame. We have got over the trouble by cutting the brackets and welding them, but we mention this to you so that you can make sure that the same trouble will not occur on the body for 32-EX. As the bodies for 30-EX and 31-EX were built on the jig and the former body fitted to the chassis at this point, it rather indicates that something has gone wrong with the jig. We have measured the chassis width at this point and find it to be correct. Yours faithfully, For and on behalf of ROLLS-ROYCE LTD., | ||