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Secret 'V' Series memo urging progress on new side levers and detailing a specific 4-door cabriolet body for the steel underframe.


Identifier  Morton\M3.2\  img015
Date  13th March 1925
  
Handwritten notes:
VM QU HOLDING UP WHAT
V SERIES ALL MATTERS
OR
CR {Mr Cra’ster / Mr Chichester}
AD
EB. 19.3.25
X8830
X8380

Typed document:
FROM H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints}
S E C R E T.
R13/AS.13.3.25.
Copy to -
'V' SERIES.

To me it is absolutely necessary to at once get on the new side levers which are so much neater for room, and give the coachbuilders a chance to make a neat and strong scheme past them.

They also permit the use of the steel underframe.

The body you are proposing for my use - i.e. open, with glass windows, and Beatonson head, (light cabriolet) with 4 doors must be built on our steel underframe.

I do not know what is delaying this. Will AJS. and DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} report?

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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