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).
Letter from a customer requesting to expedite the delivery of his Bentley chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\1\ scan0016 | |
| Date | 12th January 1934 | |
| COPY John Summers & Sons Ltd., Hawarden Bridge Steel Works, Shotton, CHESTER. 12th January, 1934. G.S./B. E.W.Hives, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. Dear Mr. Hives, Just before Arthur Robotham sailed for America I asked him who I might worry about my Bentley Chassis in his absence. He mentioned your name, probably without your consent!!! Anyhow I don't want to be a nuisance, but there is just one aspect of the case I should be awfully obliged if you would give me some opinion upon. The situation is that I have ordered my chassis through Messrs. W. Watson & Co., of Liverpool, and the one allotted to me is the third to be delivered to Messrs. Watson. The first is my brother's, and is already at the coach-builders, and nearly complete. The second has been allotted to a Mr. Swift, and is, I understand, just about to come off test. There then appears to be quite a gap until the third, which is mine, and delivery of this one is promised to Messrs. Watsons early in March. I am under the impression that so far the chassis are well ahead of the promised delivery dates, and I thought there might be a possibility of getting the delivery date of my chassis anticipated by a week or two. What I am trying for is to get my complete car delivered in time for the Easter holidays, and as Easter comes on April 1st, this means that I want it not later than say March 28th. The coachbuilders seem to take about a month to fit the bodies (I am having the standard Park Ward Saloon), so that if the chassis could be delivered to Messrs. Park, Ward & Co. before the end of February, I think I should be able to get the car for Easter. I wonder if you would be so kind as to ask your production Department whether there is any possibility of helping me to this extent. With kind regards. Yours sincerely, (Sgd.) Geoffrey Summers. | ||