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).
Letter from coachbuilder Mulliner regarding a patented dashboard arrangement separating the dashboard from the chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 182\M21\ img047 | |
| Date | 5th February 1912 | |
| CUSTOMERS' CARS ARE ONLY DRIVEN BY OUR STAFF AT CUSTOMERS' OWN RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY. MULLINER, LONG ACRE, LONDON, AND NORTHAMPTON, LTD. TELEGRAMS: MULLONAC, LONDON. TELEPHONE: 8949 GERRARD. 132 TO 135, LONG ACRE, LONDON. (AND AT 73. 75. 77. 79. 81. 83. 85. BRIDGE STREET, NORTHAMPTON. (TELEPHONE 18.)) FIRE.—Mulliner, Long Acre, London, and Northampton, Ltd., take every precaution against FIRE but do not accept liability for any injury which may be caused by fire to any Motor Car, or part thereof, entrusted to them for any purpose whatsoever. 5th February 1912. Messrs Rolls Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, Derby. Dear Sirs, We are in receipt of your letter of the 2nd inst, relative to an arrangement fitted to a Pullman Limousine body of our make exhibited on a 65 HP Napier chassis at Olympia. The arrangement you refer to of separating the enclosed dashboard from the dashboard proper was constructed by us not for the purpose of giving ventilation to them, although it performs this function admirably but for the reason which we have discovered that it is owing to the amount of movement taking place with the dashboard fixed to the chassis that trouble is often caused with the doors of carriages. The arrangement exhibited by us on this carriage however is the patent of Mr Arthur Macdonald of Messrs S. F.{Mr Friese} Edge Ltd, although we cannot tell you without making enquiries what is the patent number. We ourselves have also taken out a patent No 23739/11 which fulfil's the same function and which we have found to work admirably in practice. We enclose a brief specification of this arrangement as we note your interest in the matter. Yours faithfully, For MULLINER LONG ACRE LONDON & Northampton Ltd., A D Murrellwhite London Manager. [Handwritten on left margin: X879] | ||