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).
The supplier policy for bumper bars on Bentley and Wraith models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 118\3\ scan0070 | |
| Date | 16th February 1938 | |
| ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} 1023 BY.18/G.16.2.38. BUMPER BARS. I am in agreement with the recommendations made in Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Les.4/MH.{M. Huckerby}8.2.38. If we make a change on an article we invariably have to bring the Suppliers up to a certain standard. This standard J.R. Engineering Co. already know, and I therefore consider that the suggestion put forward by Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} that they concentrate on obtaining from Wilmot Breeden Bumpers for Bentley 111 and Bentley 50 at a reduced price and of the same quality as those made by the J.R. Engineering Co. to be the right policy. This will obviously take time, and we cannot afford at this stage to make a change on Wraith. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||