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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).
Under-utilization of Experimental Wraith Cars and suggesting a solution.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 108\2\  scan0114
Date  23th June 1938
  
SECRET. 600.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}8/R.23.6.38.

Experimental Wraith Cars.

We have now got to a position where, from an economy point of view, we cannot justify the number of cars in the Experimental Dept.

We have offered a car to Sales, but they cannot take it until the car is announced to the public in, say, three months' time. We think it is most unfortunate that a Wraith car should be standing for six months when it might be doing useful running. We would like to suggest that EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} should run a Wraith car instead of the 25/30 which he at present has. If the bonnet was locked and a 40/50 licence taken out for three months, we do not see how anybody could tell that it was a P.III. In three months' time we should almost certainly have another Wraith car to spare.

Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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