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).
Correspondence listing parts sent and providing assembly instructions for a 23-EX open body vehicle.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\T\March1929-December1929\ Scan021 | |
| Date | 7th March 1929 | |
| HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Copy to OX/HN{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} [Struck through] re. 23-EX. OPEN BODY. We sent you on Sat. last - (1) Body complete with hood & side curtains. (2) Case of trunks. (3) Rear and front wings. (4) Material for runningboards. (5) Brushing cellulose - dark shade for chassis. (6) Spraying cellulose - dark shade for wings. (7) Brushing cellulose - light for retouching. (8) Polish. (9) Tail lamp. (10) Wing lamps. (11) Spot lamp. (12) Six wheels. (13) Two hood back lights. (14) Cobra horn. (15) Bonnet. We have instructed a pair of P.100. nickel plated lamps with bifocal bulbs, but if you wish, in view of R's remarks, we will send you a nickel finished Stephan Grebel 180 mm. centre lamp and you can have the 3 lamp scheme. Please let us know. The instrument board is made and polished but owing to not receiving the instruments we shall leave you to fit them. We have not fitted the hood back lights and we wish you to do so. They should be placed so that they do not get crushed when the hood is down. We think we should paint the scuttle ventilators with the lighter shade after slightly roughing the surface to give a key. The cobra horn should be fitted under the bonnet. The screen glass has been slotted at the top to enable you to fit a single wiper, either Lucas or Bosch, whichever you have been supplied with. You will not touch the glass with the drill. The Carlton Carriage Co. are sending you 4 door pulls which you will have fixed in convenient places. These were not ready on Sat. last. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} [Handwritten numbers in top right] X7800 [Struck through] X7830 [Stamped top centre] ORIGINAL | ||