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).
Bodywork material choices, contrasting light alloy structures with mixed metals, and a handwritten note questioning the argument.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\1\ scan0062 | |
| Date | 13th November 1935 | |
| - sheet 4 - involved, and we believe that some problems may arise with such a mixture of metals, differential expansion possibly being one. If an anti-corrosive panelling is considered essential for bodywork we feel that the complete light alloy structure is the proper answer. [Handwritten Note] Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} This gives the steel body opponents a loop hole. Have we rammed American practice home hard enough? Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||