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Driver's seat design with a diagram showing spring placement and construction.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 5\2\  02-page189
Date  22th August 1928 guessed
  
(4) SEATING.
We have had a lot of trouble with front seats not affording support to the small of the driver's back, a flaw having been in use for a short while. An example of this is the Hooper Saloon 10-0-3.
Much more permanent set takes place on the long lower springs, and the shoulder's contact with the top rail.
He suggest that the seat-board be of 3 ply wood, bent to suit the shape of the driver's back, thus:-
[Handwritten label on diagram: Driver's Back]
[Handwritten label on diagram: Driver's Position After Some Wear]
The springs would then be of equal length, and no matter what subsidence might occur, there would be always a correctly shaped seat.
(5) We will send you later particulars of the instrument board.
Yours faithfully,
for ROLLS-ROYCE Ltd.
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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).


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