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).
Typed memo regarding the return and unsafe condition of car 6.B.1V.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\2\ scan0005 | |
| Date | 4th May 1937 | |
| Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} 200a(6) 4.5.37 Message received from GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} by 'phone. 6.B.1V. has now returned and is at Kingsbury. It will leave first thing in the morning and will arrive at Derby by mid-day. Pennel is bringing it. The car is not in a safe condition to be run otherwise than very, very, slowly. Pennel will supply further particulars when he arrives. AP. GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} says all 3 pumps failed on 35-EX but have let the memo go through for Dixon. | ||