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 for comparative photographs of car components to justify the high cost of their cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\5\ scan0389 | |
| Date | 26th July 1938 | |
| S/W. To Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} COPY. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}3/D.26.7.38. I have a photograph which Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} gave me some time ago showing the tremendous number of pieces in the front end suspension of a Wraith. I am wondering whether you have any more similar photographs with, if possible, the comparison with other people's. For instance, have you the Packard front suspension photographed in the same way, and have you got our gearbox and an American one. I should rather like to have these to show some of our people here why our cars in the past have cost so much. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||