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).
Request from coachbuilder Park Wards for a dummy chassis to assist with production.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\2\ scan0057 | |
| Date | 22th July 1939 | |
| 102/ HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/R.22.7.39. Dummy Chassis - Park Wards. Park Wards are particularly anxious to get hold of a dummy chassis for the purpose of fitting wing stays and lining-up methods of body mounting for production. By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} has asked if we can supply something to help them. Will you please let us know whether you can 'mock up' a chassis out of one of the frames which have gone into production. Any sort of front suspension parts would do. A gearbox casting with the change speed levers in the correct position, a dummy exhaust swan neck, a petrol tank, some sort of rear axle to carry the rear wheels and a dummy radiator. For them to fit the wings, it would be necessary for them to supply up-to-date bonnet side wing strips. | ||