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).
Replacement of a Humber with a 14 HP Vauxhall for experimental investigation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\2\ scan0183 | |
| Date | 8th August 1939 | |
| 1069. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c.Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} c.By. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}12/R.8.8.39. CAR FOR EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION. We have now finished with the Humber, and are ready to hand it over for disposal any time. We should like to replace it with a 14 H.P. Vauxhall. The Vauxhall will be particularly useful because it contains a lot of weight saving novelties in the body construction, and has had an enormous amount of energy put into it in simplifying the design of the pieces. It possesses the added advantage that if we want to know about anything that has been done on the car we can ask Taub and Olley who are good friends of ours. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||