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).
Sending a Park Ward representative to France to test Experimental Car 8-B-1V, pending a secrecy review.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\3\ scan0324 | |
Date | 25th May 1935 | |
S/W. (Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}) Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}3/MK.{R. E. B. Meade-King} 25.5.35. Experimental Car 8-B-1V. Will you please reply to Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}13/MC.16.5.35, as if there is no objection from a secrecy point of view, we want to arrange for Park Ward to send a representative to France to try this car as suggested by Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||