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 from Park Ward & Co. Ltd. to A. F. Sidgreaves confirming costs and an order for two additional car bodies.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 111\1\ scan0110 | |
| Date | 6th July 1938 | |
| COPY. PARK WARD & CO. LTD., 473 High Road, Willesden, London, N. W. 10. 6th July, 1938. PRIVATE. ATR/PC. A.{Mr Adams} F.{Mr Friese} Sidgreaves, Esq., at Queen's Hotel, Cheltenham. Dear Mr. Sidgreaves, With reference to our meeting at Derby yesterday, I confirm that we are getting out full detailed costs of the production bodies based on the estimate which we submitted to you at the inception of the scheme, and I hope to let you have these figures very shortly. I also take the opportunity of confirming that you will require two more bodies - one for 3-B-5 on the lines of the two previous ones with slight modifications, and the other for 2-B-50, the latter to be of the ordinary wood and aluminium construction. In connection with the latter, you will doubtless appreciate that the construction may have a damping effect and consequently would not truly reflect noises to the same extent. I am only mentioning this so that the setting up of a false standard may be avoided. As soon as we get the drawings from Derby, we will have these additional bodies commenced without delay. Yours sincerely, (Signed) Alec T. Roberts. | ||