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 the manufacture of six aluminium buffer supports for testing on new cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 151\2\ scan0398 | |
| Date | 12th June 1939 | |
| 1292. To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Clm. {D. D. Clapham} 14/JH.12.6.39. Front Shock Dampers. In future all new cars should be fitted with aluminium buffer supports instead of S/M. Will you please make six as soon as possible as we would like to run them on the bump and in France. | ||