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).
Minutes of a conference between the Technical and Sales departments regarding chassis and body design.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\6\ Scan016 | |
| Date | 19th June 1919 | |
| MINUTES of Conference held at Conduit Street between Technical Dept. and Sales Dept. June 19th, 1919. 1. Can Battery be carried inside Chassis to clear Step The Works will experiment and endeavour to meet the coachbuilders on this question. Mr. Spinney should advise the Technical Department the measurement of the space it is suggested should be given between the third cross member and the position of the back seat to take the battery, so that the Works may endeavour to include the alteration during the first 250 chassis. 2. Can Bonnet and Dash be widened 3" or so to get louvers inside scuttle and improve stream-line effect. i.e. back to pre-"Alpine Eagle" width. Mr. Royce is of opinion that we cannot make any alteration on the 40/50 in respect of this. 3. Cooling of Front Seat. We cannot cool the air passages through the engine because the engine has to be warm. It is a question of ventilating the scuttle or insulating the heat by not allowing it to pass through the dashboard or through the openings in the floorboards. (Mr. Hanbury mentioned that the scuttle of his new chassis is being ventilated by means of louvres, not opening to the air, but backwards.) The best way of dealing with the difficulty is to get more air under the scuttle. Can we stop holes in the floor-boards and get floor-boards which really fit. Mr. Royce suggests that experiments should be made with American mahogany (three-ply wood is not satisfactory) and that the joints in such floor-boards should be made horizontally instead of vertically. The Technical Dept. should also study how the various levers, etc. could be manipulated without having slots in the floor-boards. Experiments might also be made at Derby with the fitting of asbestos in front of the dashboard. | ||