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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 collaborative design work on vehicle sections and a proposal for an aluminium alloy body requiring extensive testing.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 117\1\  scan0042
Date  24th October 1935 guessed
  
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showing all the sections used by ourselves, and I have today sent to him through Dr. Schulthess two scale drawings, half plan and side elevation, of these two respective blueprints left with them. Dr Koenig in his office is going to work out the sections which he considers we require and we at this end are doing the same thing, so between us we should come to some ultimate result. As Dr Schulthess is coming to England for the Commercial Show in November, he has promised to call at the Works and we will further discuss this, especially our respective sections which we shall both have got out.

In conclusion, I should like to build a body of this aluminium alloy but am firmly convinced it requires a fair amount of experimental work and should undergo one of your severe 10,000 mile tests before finality is reached.

Again thanking you,

Yours very sincerely,

(Sgd) C.W.Ward.
  
  


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