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 | ||