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).
Car body dimensions, construction materials, and the development of a left-hand drive model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 144\4\ scan0043 | |
| Date | 19th March 1940 | |
| - 2 - Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} This enables the lighter gauge frame material to be used and saves about 1 cwt. on the weight of the chassis. The body is, at present, being fitted at Park Wards but there will be a considerable amount of work to be done on the chassis when it returns from the coachbuilders and it will not be completed for two months. BODY DIMENSIONS. These were not mentioned at the conference, but the body that has been made for this car is actually a B.V. body with slightly reduced dimensions. The object of reducing the size is to have something as an example that is halfway between the present B.V. body and the original B.2. body so that it can be referred to when we are considering putting expensive tools in hand. It is of wood and aluminium construction. LEFT HAND CAR. The design position of the left-hand car was discussed. This is completed but there is a good deal of detail drawing to be done. The car is being built as an 8-cyl. 11'1" wheel base limousine. The body has already been produced at Park Wards. Owing to the degree of rationalising achieved, once the left hand car has been produced it will be possible to "left-hand" any other car in the rationalised range, with 6 or 8 cylinder engines. Some discussion took place around the desirability or otherwise of a left hand gear change control. It was pointed out that a column control scheme had been designed and was being detailed. - Continued - | ||