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 discussing the specifications, quantities, and pricing for car body production.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\2\ scan0093 | |
| Date | 23th November 1939 | |
| C.W.Ward, Esq. -4- 23rd. November, 1939. (2) If you cannot do this, what is the price at which you could produce a body to this specification in these quantities at the rates specified? (3) If you do not think the specification you suggest as being necessary is acceptable, what is the cheapest figure at which you think you could produce a body in the quantities specified with an acceptable specification ? (4) Since, whenever we discuss the matter, it appears that quantities seem to be the predominating factor in your mind, can you give us a curve similar to that produced by Mr. Englebach which demonstrates the rate at which the cost of a body varies with the total quantities and the rate at which they are produced? We appreciate that in order to get together the information outlined above a good deal of work has got to be done, and it has got to be done very thoroughly. It is going to take up a lot of your time, and at the present moment you may have had instructions from the Board to fill the Factory with work before you take on anything else. We are, however, taking the matter up with Mr. Sidgreaves with a view to getting this body project put on a proper footing. We have, of course never had a detail list of the cost of the B.V. body so do not know what progress youhave made up to date. It is quite certain, however, that it would be ridiculous for us to make the effort we are doing on the chassis if the corresponding effort was not made on the body. As we pointed out, we might be forced to go into Mulliner's of Birmingham for a quantity produced body as we know they can do it at the right price, which would be an unfortunate state of affairs if it occurred through the fact that Park Ward's had not had a chance to go for the job. Fortunately, you have Mr. Green who, we understand, should be able to devote his whole time to the problem, but, of course, he will not be able to do very much without consistently consulting you. | ||