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).
From Paris regarding a delay in the coachbuilding work for a Streamlined Bentley, providing a new delivery estimate.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 161\1\ scan0167 | |
Date | 8th August 1938 | |
1380 To: "Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}", DERBY. "Sr" is absent PARIS Dn21/8.8.38 re Streamlined BENTLEY. -------------------- Further to your Rml3/MH{M. Huckerby}5.8.38, we have now seen the Coachbuilders who made this body, and in view of the work they have to do, it will be impossible to have same finished before the beginning of September, (about the 6th or 7th). We will then arrange for the car to be sent over so that it should reach you round about the 10th Septr. We are sorry that we can not get the work finished earlier. Dn. | ||