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).
Letter from Wilmot-Breeden Ltd concerning progress on a bumper, the 'Myth' project, and die-casting.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\5\ scan0158 | |
| Date | 17th February 1941 | |
| TELEPHONE: CENTRAL 8641 (18 LINES) TELEGRAMS: "BUMPERS, BIRMINGHAM." WILMOT-BREEDEN LTD EASTERN WORKS BIRMINGHAM 1 MANAGING DIRECTOR'S OFFICE 17th February. 1941. W.A. Robotham Esq. Rolls-Royce Ltd. DERBY. Dear Robotham, Thank you for your letter of the 13th instant. The car is a gem, and I give you full marks for it. I came back from my visit to you full of enthusiasm to get things moving for you, and am glad to say that the bumper is now in hand, with a scheme to deal entirely with the removal of all stud or bolt heads from the face. Further, all the other matters on which Mr. Spicer in various visits has been conferring with Mr. Green, are moving, and I am keeping behind the whole thing myself personally. I shall look forward very much to receiving the final drawings of the steering wheel and radiator grille of the 'Myth', also a model of the radiator grille itself. When I get these, it will not take long to give you the whole story of die-cast possibilities, and also satisfactory fixing, from all the experience we have had. In the course of a post I am going to send you two sections of the Austin radiator grille, chromium with cream finish on the inside top, just to | ||