Experimental fitting of a stiffener for the side spare wheel carrier support.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 13\5\ Spare05-page101 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1931 | |
| 87600. To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Ha/Lid. {A. J. Lidsey} Ha/Lid. {A. J. Lidsey} 2/MJ.2.7.31. r4663. SIDE SPARE WHEEL CARRIER SUPPORT. W.W. suggested by 'phone yesterday that we try experimentally a form of stiffener to hold the side spare wheel carriers, as shewn on the attached sketch. The horizontal stay from the dash board to the top of the rearmost wheel carrier tube (as fitted to Iden's car) is not possible with the overhanging dashboard. Will you please arrange to fit this to 20-EX. at the same time removing the present spare wheel carrier stiffeners and also disconnecting the rear engine feet. Ha/A.J.Lidsey. | ||
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).