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).
Page 2 of a letter from Park Ward & Co. Ltd. detailing the programme for building and testing car bodies 10, 11 and 12.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\2\ scan0175 | |
| Date | 17th January 1940 guessed | |
| P. W. & CO., LTD. CONTD. 2. three bodies we should finalise the fabricated parts, and get Motor Panels to make the necessary corrections to their dies and tools, also we shall be able to finish our main assembly jigs and sub-assembly fixtures. During this procedure we propose to weigh No. 9 body in its entirety, all component parts, assemble same, weigh the complete shell which will then give us the weight of the brazing and welding material and panels, that is to say everything will be taken into consideration. From these three bodies we should be able to arrive at the cost figures you require. Body 10. The framework of this body to be assembled but only just tacked together. We propose then to dismantle some of the parts, in accordance with the experience gained from the study of the Studebaker. This body would then be finalised and tested to ascertain the result of the deletion of the internal fittings. Body 11. Assemble the body and trim interior in cheap method as suggested, with rexine and any other cheaper fittings which can be put in, for everybody's inspection. Body 12. This body to be built of 22 gauge material as 12.B.V. We should like your approval of the programme as laid out above. Yours sincerely, for PARK WARD & CO. LTD. Works Director. | ||