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. Ltd. regarding finishing instructions for a Long Wheelbase Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 111\1\ scan0047 | |
| Date | 25th March 1938 | |
| c. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} 1044 . 25th.March 1938. Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}21/N. 804. Messrs.Park Ward & Co.Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, London N.W.10. Confidential. For the attention of C.Falconer.Esq., Dear Sir, Re: Long Wheelbase Bentley - 1.B.50. You have already been informed by Mr Robotham that it is decided to finish this car completely in black with a fine white line. We have now considered finishing instructions, and would like the interior of the rear compartment finished entirely in cloth whilst the front compartment we think should be trimmed in black leather for the seats, and leather cloth for the doors below the waist line. Would you kindly submit to us when the writer next calls at your Works, samples of head cloth, leather, leather cloth, seat cloth, and carpet, which we can have consistent with the agreed production price of the coachwork. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. Car Project Office. | ||