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).
Car body designs for Roy Gibson, Esq., including Paulin types and B.V or B.II chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\5\ scan0052 | |
| Date | 27th June 1939 | |
| 261 SECRET. W/S. Bly.{B. W. Bleaney - Bentley Sales} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}8/R.27.6.39. re: Roy{Sir Henry Royce} Gibson, Esq. With reference to Bly{B. W. Bleaney - Bentley Sales}10/Sm.26.6.39., we are ourselves considering an open Paulin type of body for the B.V. to follow on the 4-door saloon, which we have now completed. Mens. Paulin will deal with the design of the body just as soon as he has completed his present commitments. Naturally, your customer would get the best job if he waited until this design was finished, and then had a replica built on a B.V. chassis. On the other hand, if you want to sell him a B.II chassis he could certainly get the results required if he had the same front as fitted to the Embiricos car and the same shape in plan view. You will appreciate that the only place we could make this car would be France, and we should not be able to put much effort into it, because the B.II chassis would be out of production before it was finished. You will be pleased to hear that the 4-door Paulin saloon, which has far more room in it than the standard Bentley, lapped Brooklands yesterday @ 107 m.p.h., which was a great surprise to us. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||