Discussion of bodywork dimensions, windscreen design, and materials.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 7\5\ X 604 Body-page023 | |
| Date | 14th October 1936 | |
| -3- approximately 1" of head room, and that the sunshine roof plus the rising division absorbs 2½" at the 3ft. line. We agree to the use of your standard extra seat which is when compressed 12" above the level of the rear floor. We must have 36½" between the compressed cushion of the extra seat and the underside of the roof at the 3 ft. line, and therefore this gives us 48½" head room at this point, and makes the height of the car from the rear floor to the outside of the rear panel at the 3 ft.line 12" + 36½" + 2½" = 51". This is approximately what our 16th. scale drawing of the car scales, and we would like you to construct the body to these dimensions. 12) We have already asked you to use Aero Triplex for this car. We confirm that we discussed with you the question of improved visibility and agree that it will make the front appearance of the car unsightly if we carry down the corners of the base of the windscreen much below their present level as they will expose the inside of the door pillar and finisher when the car is viewed from the front. It would not be possible to match up the door finisher with the screen finisher. We do suggest, however, that you take advantage of the fact that we have a fixed windscreen to reduce the size of the channel and to lower the base of the screen as a whole relative to the scuttle, by reducing the upsweep in as much as the wiper blades may be parked on the screen channel and not below it. This will entail dropping the instrument board a small amount which on this car can be done without danger of interfering with the driver's knees, because the front floor is very low relative to the seat compared with our standard 'K' type column, and the driver's knees will not be so high relative to the cushions. | ||
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).