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).
Delivery of bodies, wheels, hubs, and tools for Peregrine and Bensport models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 179b\1\ img050 | |
| Date | 7th September 1932 | |
| HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/LID.{A. J. Lidsey} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} ORIGINAL PEREGRINE AND BENSPORT. We thank you for HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/LID{A. J. Lidsey}3/KT3932. DELIVERY OF BODIES. We shall give you definite instructions as to the exact date that your lorry shall arrive for each of the 7 bodies in question. BENSPORT WHEELS & DUMMY HUBS. We need a set of Bensport wheels to have them stove enamelled red to match the colour scheme of the open car, and we need one wheel at any rate in order to enable us to make wheel covers. Derby have had our designs for the wheel and hub for some weeks. In order that we may finish off Bensport we are sending you herewith a design for a cast aluminium dummy hub, and we would be glad if you would make us two, and send them to the coachbuilders forthwith. These dummy hubs are built into the body, and we must have them to complete our work. PEREGRINE WHEELS & DUMMY HUBS. We note that you will send Park Wards a Peregrine wheel and tyre complete to enable them to make a wheel cover for the spare wheel, and the wooden model of the dummy hub may suffice for them to complete their body, but it would be far better if we could have the actual dummy hubs, or you will have to spend some pounds, when you actually get the body, in fixing the dummy hub which is buried in the back of the body panelling behind the luggage container. TOOLS FOR PEREGRINE. In order to get going on the 7 bodies in question we are reckoning that the jack, wheel mallet, tyre pump, starting handle, and wheel spanner, will be the same as the 25HP., and are providing clips for housing them in pockets in the scuttle. If any other tools are subsequently chosen you will have to rig them up in Derby. (1) Handwritten notes: X407, X455 (top right) ltsd. in D.O. (left margin) | ||