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).
Requesting a radiator grille be made interchangeable with standard shutters for testing at Brooklands.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 155\1\ scan0135 | |
| Date | 13th June 1934 | |
| X788 RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.2/MA.13.6.34. RADIATOR GRILLE FOR BROOKLANDS TESTS. You are at present modifying a radiator grille which we wish to test out at Brooklands on 3.B.IV. Will you therefore please arrange for this grille to be made interchangeable with the shutters of the standard radiator which you are preparing for us in accordance with memo Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.5/MA.23.5.34., so that we can interchange either or remove them while at the track. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. | ||