List of specifications for various car components including luggage carrier, lighting, instrument board, steps, and indicators.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 7\5\ X 604 Body-page037 | |
| Date | 20th November 1936 guessed | |
| -3- Luggage. Rear flap in panel to fold down to form a luggage carrier. Flap to be held closed by Silent Travel type catch on each side operated by a central key. Dust exclusion in the compartment to be adequately catered for. Experiments to be tried to avoid the use of a highly loaded hinge for the rear flap with a view to reducing weight. Tail Lamp, Number Plate, Etc. Cornercraft combined Number plate, stop lamp and rear lamp in position drawn on LsC. Reverse lamp to have a 3 amps. bulb and mauve tell-tale lamp in instrument board. Scuttle Attachment. Prints to follow. Instrument Board. Plywood board with veneered face. All extra switches of R.R. approved design having identification markings. Prints of board arrangement to follow. Screen Wiper. Motor carried on face of dashboard. Wiper boxes on screen rail. Type of wiper to be settled later. Every reasonable effort to be made to keep the base of the screen as low as possible to ensure good visibility. Steps. SWG.14 Platform steps to be of aluminium with light wooden board beneath. Tread to consist of the latest approved pattern of rubber: in the interests of lightness we wish to discover something lighter than that which we now use. Back Light. Aero Glass. Rear blind to be hand operated from the driving seat. Direction Indicators. Direction indicator to be concealed in the centre pillars and to be of the latest pattern approved by Lucas. Time control switch to be mounted centrally in the screen rail capping. Companions. Built-in recessed companions of approved design. | ||
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).