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).
Poor state of a top-heavy 20.HP specimen car and the bad impression it creates on visitors.
| Identifier | Morton\M21\ img017 | |
| Date | 26th August 1925 | |
| R.R. 235A (100 T) (S.H. 159, 11-8-20) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2800 TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM R.{Sir Henry Royce} Copy to CCJ BB [text is struck through] ORIGINAL [watermark] R3/M26.8.25. re. 20.HP. - 7.G.11. (TOP HEAVY SPECIMEN.) X4219 I believe that it is disastrous to keep in use the very top heavy body that was lent to the RR. people from America. I suggest that it be sent to the coach- builders to be lightened, especially in the roof. It would pay us to chop it up rather than it should give an impression similar to that obtain- ed{J. L. Edwards} from it by the visitors from the U.S. factory, when they came to WW. The whole thing was not in a good enough state of efficiency to be a credit to our Co., and I was ashamed of it, and pitied the poor visitors, who were suffering by our badly arranged hospitality. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||