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).
Disposal of a second-hand experimental car and repurposing an American experimental car for demonstration.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 123\4\ scan0027 | |
| Date | 2nd April 1931 | |
| .X180. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Experimental Cars. Would you please let me know how much longer you anticipate having to keep 110-DC, the P.I car lent you in connection with springing experiments. The point is that it is a second-hand car for sale and we do not want to miss the selling season if we can help it in which to try to dispose of it. In regard to the two L.H. American experimental cars I presume you will not wish to keep these indefinitely and it occurred to me that, when N.2 Series comes out for home sales, we might do up one of these two cars and give it to Paris as a demonstration car. L.H. drive would be acceptable to them. Normally of course it would be difficult to dispose of them, and an additional advantage would be that the fact they had a L.H. car might help us to get some orders. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} [Stamp: RECD 1931 APR H] | ||