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 discussing the timing of a chassis purchase and seeking advice on the choice of car body, specifically between a Sedancar and an open car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\1\ scan0011 | |
| Date | 10th August 1938 | |
| - 2 - would be tremendous, and we should not be able to overcome it even by adjusting the four front windscreens, which we prefer. Luckily, there is no hurry. As you probably know the Chassis is bought and will be paid for at the end of this month, and delivered to somebody. Webb goes away for his holiday next Monday and by the time he comes back I shall have gone for mine and then I reckon it will take at least three months from the 1st October. I do not think this makes any difference, because one does not do much motoring in an open car in the Winter, although we do a certain amount, and the Packard is still a most extraordinarily good car in spite of its nine years. My wife and I are rather worried as to which is really the best thing to do, and I thought possibly I might pass on some of this worry to Alan, because I am not at all sure that he might not say very strongly: "Do not have a Sedancar" or otherwise he might urge preference in that direction. Naturally, Webb wants an order by next Monday, but this I think is quite impossible. It is not as if we are buying a little Austin buzzbox, as my wife said, if we are going to have a really good car we will take a great deal more trouble, and although we have had six or seven sorts of cars we haven't had one-millionth of the experience that Alan has had. I wonder if it would trouble you to let me have a line. | ||