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).
Design modifications for car bodies, petrol tanks, and associated fittings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67\2\ scan0014 | |
| Date | 28th January 1920 | |
| Contd. -3- R1/G28.1.20. body and to help with the hinged joints shewn in this particular design, I have no objection, however, to the highly stressed hinge if it is found to have less limitations. It is in connection with this luggage grid that we have another design which originated in a discussion here with Mr. Olley, which serves as a better protection for the petrol tank. This other design will require considerable modifications to the various fittings and will have to stand over for a future occasion, because the more usual one that you have in hand, with the modifications we have suggested, should be available at a very early date. X.3889. X.36871 It is in connection with such a luggage carrier that the difficulties arise with the filler and the petrol gauge which we mentioned in a recent letter. The filler is nearly completed and I think will be found simple and efficient, and I should be glad if you could put it in hand as soon as you receive the drawings. We have not finally fixed either the position or the angle of the nozzle, and have left you this so that you can try with a wooden model on several chassis to which various bodies are fitted, so as to get a universal position which we assume should in each country be on the pavement side, naturally next to the garage, so that in the case of an American hose it would not have to be taken half way across the street. X.3888. We understand you are submitting an alternate fitting for the Contd. H.R. 255 (100 A) (S.T) (S. L) 846 F.{Mr Friese} S (18-9-19) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2469 | ||