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 to Park Ward & Co. regarding a new standardized design for wide-framed Phantom rear wheel arches.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\1\ scan0158 | |
| Date | 19th June 1935 | |
| Copy to S. Gr.{George Ratcliffe} Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Lr.{Mr Ellor} HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} HY.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} RMC. 4304 E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}4/MN. 19th. June, 1935. Messrs. Park Ward & Co., 473, High Road, Willesden, London, N.W.10. Dear Sirs, Re Wide Framed Phantom Rear Wheel arches. We send to you herewith a print of LeC 4560 showing the standardised sheet steel rear wheel arch for the wide framed Phantom. This is a compromise in shape between that used on the Enclosed Limousine 31-EX and the Continental Touring Saloon 32-EX, so that this wheel arch may be applicable to both types of coachwork. We have already asked you to produce seven sets of these for ourselves, a set for yourselves and a set for 33-EX, R.R.London Enclosed Limousine and R.R.London Continental touring saloon with division. We would be glad if you would also make for us one further set to be sent to Derby to be used as a sample with a view to our obtaining these by machine pressings. We appreciate that you will have already built in the wheel arches for 33-EX which may not exactly conform to this drawing. We shall have to accept this situation but on all other cars we wish to have the arch as drawn. Yours faithfully, For and on behalf of ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. Att: LeC.4560. | ||