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).
Instructions for finishing a special touring saloon demonstration car, model 20.G.4.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 55\1\ Scan071 | |
| Date | 12th October 1931 | |
| TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} COPY TO HN.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} RE SPECIAL TOURING SALOON, 20.G.4. We have issued the finishing instructions for this car, and have also asked HN.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} to supply the standard accessories which are normally fitted to a stock car. We are not asking for anything special in the way of lamps or screenwipers as the car will be used for demonstration purposes. We want you to supply to Messrs Park Ward a complete set of instruments for the instrument board. These should be of the standard black finish, and should represent what we shall supply with "U" Series. We are not sure but we believe the radiator shutters will be thermostatically controled in which case the control on the instrument board will be for the starting carburetter only and car be the same unit as now used on P.2. We understand that you are building up a rivetless bonnet for this car. When you have completed this we would like you to let the coachbuilders have it for painting. We shall arrange for the body to be delivered with sufficient paint to enable you to paint the chassis and front apron. Although this car will have on it the larger silencer we think that it would be wise to fit a cut-out if only for our test purposes. Provision for the valve is shewn on our design for the silencer and either the present valve or a scaled down edition of the one for P.2. car be used. The bracket for the control will be adapted from the one you now have. We think you should do this. | ||