Specifications for car body components including wings, doors, screen, and sunshine roof.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 7\5\ X 604 Body-page082 | |
| Date | 24th February 1937 guessed | |
| -2- Rear Wings. Rear wings carried entirely on the wheel arch (attached by bolts) made of aluminium SHG.16. Stone Shields. Stone shields in aluminium SHG.16, bolted in position, to be fitted to both front and rear wings. (Alternatively A.C. stone shields may be used). Doors. Doors to be as thin as possible by using Bentley type Silent Travel locks. The lock jamb to be reinforced by a steel plate SHG.16, to prevent warping due to the weakened section of the door post at the lock. Front door hinged on centre pillar. Rear door on rear pillar, with outside hinges with lubricator. Rubber type top and bottom stops to all doors. Door check-stops of latest pattern. Interior plate carrying the window lift gear to be of aluminium SHG.12 (or less if possible). Front and rear doors to have interior handles on lock spindle. All interior handles to be of same pattern. Glass in all doors and quarter windows to be of Triplex Toughened of 3/16ths. ins. thickness. Screen. Fixed screen. Glass Triplex Laminated - 3/16ths. in. thick. Head. Sunshine roof of latest approved pattern to be fitted over the driving compartment. Cantrails to be suitably reinforced to counteract the weakening effect of the sunshine roof. | ||
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).