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).
Suggesting a new 9-PK Silver Ghost with a Hooper body be used as a transport car for testing its subframe and paintwork.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\4\ scan0310 | |
| Date | 21th December 1925 | |
| 49720 To C. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} c. to Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} c. to My. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}6/LG21.12.25 EXPERIMENTAL CARS. We have just taken stock delivery of 9-PK car fitted with a double-enclosed limousine Hooper body mounted on a subframe, finished with cellulose paint-work. This is a Silver Ghost type car. Although we wish to carry out a few tests with this car we do not wish to keep it as an experimental car. It is a complete well-finished body. Our suggestion is that we hand this car over to the Transport Dept at Derby and they use it instead of the present 40/50 HP. car which they have which could be sold. Although the body is mounted on a subframe, it is quite impossible for anyone to notice this unless the car is examined from underneath. The running of the car as a Transport car would be the sort of running we require in order to test the subframe and also see what happens to the special paint-work. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||