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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).
Potential acquisition and modification of LaSalle and Cadillac cars for evaluation.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\2\  img141
Date  17th February 1934
  
T SG{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} WOR{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} E By Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} HOY EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}
HFRm/KH/33
Feb. 17th / 34

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

CARS TO BRING BACK

I gave Seaholm a specification of the parts I wanted to fit the G.M. suspension scheme onto a 40/50. They are all the new La{L. A. Archer} Salle pieces.
It means cutting up a frame etc & crating it. Seaholm did not say he would not do it, but inferred that it would create a certain amount of bother & that the president-might tax him with doing R.R's engineering for them. He suggested we should buy a complete La{L. A. Archer} Salle: as I had also asked him for a lot of other La{L. A. Archer} Salle pieces such as induction pipes, pistons it struck me as a possibility though there are certain objections to bringing two Cadillac Cars back with the whole of America to choose from.
However the La{L. A. Archer} Salle is most interesting, & though none have yet been produced Seaholm thinks he can get one for me by the time I sail.
Briefly the inception of the car is as follows: Cadillacs have found out, that in parallel with almost every other American Company, that the big expensive
  
  


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