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 Captain Pelham-Clinton regarding collaborative testing of car bodies and components with other coachbuilders.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5\2\ 02-page048 | |
| Date | 24th June 1926 | |
| (Continuation) - 2 - Captain Pelham-Clinton. The tests, as you are doubtless aware, are conducted on very strenuous lines - that is to say, the whole test (unless unforeseen difficulties arise) is run off in a period of about three or four weeks. I understood on the telephone that you would be quite agreeable to enter into such a proposition and that you would have no objection to information obtained as the result of such a test, being passed on to other Coachbuilders, provided that in the event of their entering into a similar arrangement, we would give you similar information arising out of tests of their bodies, the whole idea being that we should all work together with the view to trying to produce the perfect complete Rolls-Royce Car. I am asking Mr. Honeyman to arrange with Mr. Leach to send in Chassis No. CUK.34. forthwith for standardised Saloon Limousine which I believe was ear-marked for test of this description some little time ago but was subsequently cancelled and he will send through the finishing instructions which, broadly speaking, are - Rough Grey Paint and properly upholstered and finished as regards fillets, windscreen and all the hundred and one items other than exterior painting and varnishing, the complete Car being required out with the utmost possible despatch. Yours sincerely, GENERAL SALES MANAGER, ROLLS-ROYCE, LIMITED. P.S. If you have any special item which you would like submitted to test, such as a single panel front screen made to open - or top half in one piece, or valances carried right forward on dumb iron, such as we are advocating, here is an excellent opportunity of testing them. | ||