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 to Park Ward & Co. Ltd. requesting an urgent estimate for accident repairs to a Bentley body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\2\ scan0020 | |
| Date | 14th May 1937 | |
| 200a Experimental Dept. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/PD.11/JH. 14th May. 1937. Messrs. Park Ward & Co.Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, LONDON.N.W.10. Dear Sirs, We are despatching to you by road to-morrow morning early as Bentley body complete with bonnet,wings, seats, etc.etc. This body has been involved in an accident and we wish to make a claim for the cost of repairs necessary due to this. Will you please go over the whole of the car and let us have an estimate for making this body and wings etc. a 100% job, including painting, together with the estimate for the accident repairs. You will also notice that the outside petrol filler has been let into the old door, we wish this to be made up clean with the body panel. Will you also please supply a new instrument board. We should be very grateful if you would let us have these estimates by return, as the work is very urgent. Will you also please estimate how long you will take for this work. The lorry which is taking this body is also to bring back the body for 26-G-VI. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. | ||