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).
Tail design, weight distribution, and spare wheel placement for streamline bodies.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0326 | |
| Date | 5th November 1934 | |
| +204 W/S. To Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} from E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} c. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} LHS.{Lord Herbert Scott} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ER. JHE. LA.{L. A. Archer} EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} re Streamline Bodies. Referring to your memo Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}9/E.30.10.34, EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} will be in Derby tomorrow, and we shall be able to look into this question of tail design. It seems to be very much bound up with disposing of the spare wheel and apparently the excessive weight and poor weight distribution has been caused by this feature. In some cases the wheel is carried on the inside of the lid{A. J. Lidsey} and has to be detached with the lid{A. J. Lidsey} opened, and the wheel in a somewhat high awkward position. To avoid these difficulties arising we might consider as a general scheme that the luggage and spare wheel should be left in their existing positions as used on the Standard close coupled saloon bodies, and the tail would then be a streamline cover which could be lifted up when required for access to the rear of the car, and need have no more weight than that required for its own structural strength. There would, of course, be a projection of the frame of the car on which the tail would rest. I am asking EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} to obtain particulars of Mr Fedden's car. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||