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).
Need for dashboard ventilation due to excessive heat around the driver's feet in Klugard type cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 181\M8\ img006 | |
| Date | 27th February 1912 | |
| Mr. Wormald. [HANDWRITTEN]: Refer to Jim Bullamore Litton Road [STAMP]: W.M MAR 1912 RECEIVED [TYPED]: Le CanadelHenry Royce's French residence. CJ27/D27212. Technical Committee. Please take into consideration how you can ventilate under the dashboard cars of the Klugard type. This car appears to me to be quite perfect save for the fact that one's feet appear to me to be nearly burnt off; and ventilation must be introduced into cars of this type which are built in the future. I believe that Mr Royce has recently suggested that the Works should get out a new form of dashboard. The ventilation question must be kept in view in connection with this matter. C.J. [MARGIN NOTE]: X819 [HANDWRITTEN NOTE]: @ This "in the future" in actual fact referred to a period long after CJ's decease! | ||