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 The Rover Company Ltd discussing a proposed meeting, an Oldsmobile car's features, and steering layout.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 116\1\ scan0123 | |
| Date | 29th July 1937 | |
| TELEPHONE Nº 8081 (7 Lines) London Service Depot SEAGRAVE ROAD· FULHAM · LONDON · S·W·6. TELEGRAMS: ROVER, COVENTRY. BCM/ROVER. CODES: A.{Mr Adams} B. C. 5TH EDITION, LIEBERS, MARCONI, MOTOR TRADE, BENTLEY. Contractors to H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Government. ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY AND NOT TO INDIVIDUALS THE ROVER COMPANY LTD NEW · METEOR · WORKS: COVENTRY Our Ref MCW/PM. Your Ref 29th July, 1937. W. A.{Mr Adams} Robotham Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Mr. Robotham, Thank you for your letter of July 27th. I am arranging with our Mr. Swaine to call upon you with a 16 h.p. crankcase, crankshafts, connecting rods and oil pump assembly on August 26th., and will come myself also if I can get away. Regarding the Oldsmobile. Thank you for your offer of information. This will be very useful, and I will get in touch with you again when we know more definitely what we are looking for. We are not greatly interested in the engine, but have bought the car because we were very impressed with the springing and road holding qualities of the one you had, but we wanted to make sure that these apparently good features would be maintained under all conditions of driving, which so far seems to be the case. In checking up the steering layout of the Oldsmobile, the point which interests us most at present is the large amount of king pin offset (distance from projected king pin centre line to centre of tyre contact on the ground). This seems to be Cont'd... Handwritten Text: Top Right Corner: 1090 Next to date: F.J. HARDY- In first paragraph: ? 28th | ||