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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).
Complaint about seating position and a subsequent alteration to the front seats on an experimental car.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 41\4\  Scan200
Date  16th September 1924
  
W/S.
C. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
X3729
HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG16.9.24.

BODIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL CARS.
X3729
X9840

With reference to R3/M29.8.24. The body which R.{Sir Henry Royce} refers to is the one fitted to 46-PK car. It is a Hooper open touring body. This is the car which PN.{Mr Northey} used in the south of France in the beginning of the year. He tried the seating position at Derby and complained that he could not drive the car and asked us to get the front seats moved back a few [handwritten: three] inches. This was carried out by Messrs. Sanderson & Holmes Ltd., Derby.

R.{Sir Henry Royce} was perfectly aware that this alteration had been made - he knows the whole history of the body.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  


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