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 discussing specifications for a new lightened B.V body, including details on seats, windows, and windscreens.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\1\ scan0288 | |
| Date | 30th June 1941 | |
| § 404 30th June, 1941. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/ET. C.W. WARD, Esq., Messrs. Park Ward Ltd., 473 High Road - Willesden, LONDON. N.W. 10. Dear Ward, Further to my letter of the 25th, I enclose a pro-visional specification for the new lightened type B.V body. I suggest that you come up here to discuss this and also the completion of the Myth some time next week. We can then give you drawings of the Myth hardware and you can let us know the difficulties which we are likely to encounter in fitting them into a B.V body. I think that we should make up a pair of Mr. Green's tubular seats, but as an alternative we should have two of the extremely light aluminium bucket seats with your fittings. I had a talk to Barclay about fixed windscreens after I left you the other day, and he admitted that the great majority of people de-manded opening screens, and therefore I am afraid we cannot have a fixed screen for this car. In the same way I think we should have Triplex for the rear door windows, but that as an alternative we should make up some Perspex lights. If these do not prove satisfactory in service, we can fit the Triplex. We are keeping the chassis at Derby until the specifica-tion of the body has been settled. We can also talk round it during your visit, as it has the Corniche type of petrol tank. By the way, the first thing Jack Barclay said to me when I spoke to him was "You are going to replace the 12 by an 8, then, after the war". This rather made me wonder whether somebody from your repair shop had handed on the information regarding 4.B.50 to him. I do think that it is easy and necessary to keep this engine covered up while your fellows are working on the car. Yours sincerely, | ||