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 regarding a broken windscreen stanchion on vehicle 1-B-4, explaining the inability to provide a spare.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\2\ scan0178 | |
| Date | 25th August 1934 | |
| X6513a Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} TO: S. Hancock (Paris). Copy to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} re:- 1-B-4 - Windscreen. Although you sent us some details of the broken screen stanchion on 1-B-4, we are still unable to send you a spare. The screen was bought out complete from a firm of Screen-makers in Worcester. Messrs. Park Ward & Co. sent them a wooden pattern for the stanchion and they have destroyed it, because it was a special order not likely to be repeated. We are unable to see any way in which we can send you a new part unless you can send us the broken one. We suggest that you will prefer to get an iron bar put up the side of the screen, fitted up by a Blacksmith, and finish the test under those conditions. When the body comes back we understand that it is going to be more or less thrown away, so there will be no need to repair the screen then. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||