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).
Build progress, required parts, and colour scheme for an Experimental Pullman Limousine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5\2\ 02-page312 | |
| Date | 27th February 1930 | |
| X 5830 Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}12/JL.27.2.30. SECRET Handwritten: H.C. Copy to By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} m.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Please return Re: Experimental Pullman Limousine - Park Ward. You may remember that we have been building you a body for a long-framed 20/25 H.P. chassis at Messrs. Park Wards to enable you to replace and sell the 20 H.P. long-framed car 40-G-4. This body is ready for painting. We are modifying the scuttle to suit a modified bonnet and dash which we are proposing to use with the shell tank radiator. We are anxious to receive the bonnet of this car to enable us to do the painting and moulding. Handwritten: RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Can we answer this on last The coachbuilders tell us they have not received the pot which fits over the rear universal joint and is part of the subframe. Could you let them have it? P.T.O. We think it would be a great help to us when talking about this car if you could allocate the chassis number. With respect to the colour scheme, there is the usual dilemma. The following points have to be considered:- (1) It is a Town Carriage and Sales will wish to see it with a view to judging what a maximum body on the new long-framed chassis can look like, and as a sample of what they will be able to sell. (2) It is an experimental car and therefore should have colours which do not soil or show the dirt. (3) Mr. Royce will have to see the car, and his views on colours are rather vague, and yet at times very definite. We have tried to find a colour scheme to meet all these conditions. It is a sine qua non that the roof, upper quarters and wings must be black, as it is a Town Carrier. We are therefore only left with the panels. Normally these would be either dark blue or maroon. R.{Sir Henry Royce} does not like these colours and they are not serviceable from your point of | ||