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 arranging a car road test and comparison with a Hispano car's brakes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 22\1\ Scan060 | |
| Date | 15th January 1924 | |
| X4214 W/S. PN.{Mr Northey} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} S E C R E T. X9940 X4214 HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/LG15.1.24. With reference to your note of the 14th.inst. According to our programme, we shall have your car ready for running on the road on Monday. It will be a rush but unless any thing very unforeseen happens, I feel confident that it will be ready for you to try on Tuesday the 22nd.inst. I recommend that you come on Tuesday the 22nd. arriving on the usual 1 o-clock train in Derby and make arrangements to stay the night in Derby, so as to allow us as long a time as possible with the car. It might be suitable if you brought back the Hispano car on Tuesday. We should rather like to have that car at the Works whilst you are here so that we could make direct comparisons with the RR. and Hispano brakes. Perhaps you will let us know what arrangements you make. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||