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).
Status report on various cars including a Mercedes chassis, a Delaunay-Belleville, and a Daimler.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 20\11\ Scan104 | |
Date | 22th June 1915 guessed | |
Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}/MorS/L22615. 2. chassis, and those that were originally prepared for this car were fitted to 58NA{Mr Nadin} to his instructions and there may be some delay in the Order Office in obtaining a further set. We hope, however, to send this car to Holmes Bros. by the end of the week - even if same is in an incomplete state - to have the body fitted, and it should therefore not be very long before the car can be sent to Mr Royce, particularly if it be sent without the Zephyr pistons. Mercedes Chassis. This car is awaiting a new Crankshaft before it can be prepared for sale. A forging is now on order but it will doubtless be some little time before we receive the forging as it has only been ordered recently, and as you are aware, we are experiencing great delay in getting material which is not for war service. Delaunay-Belleville. Mr Platford has charge of this car; he tells us that it is now being stored in London awaiting instructions from Mr Royce as to when it may be sent him for examination, after which it is to be returned to the Works to be taken down for examination in our Repair Dept. Daimler Car. We still have the old Daimler car in our Experimental | ||