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 to discreetly obtain a Delco-Remy 8-cylinder ignition distributor from a Graham Paige Custom 8.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 163\7\ img258 | |
| Date | 27th June 1934 | |
| Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. 86056. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.10/MA.27.6.34. We wish to obtain a Delco-Remy 8 cylinder ignition distributor exactly similar to the one fitted to the Graham Paige Custom 8 at the Works. The on on the car is Model 66LY Serial 202. Will you kindly undertake to suitably obtain one of these for us without provoking any suspicion that we are interested in an 8 cylinder engine. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||