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).
Scheme for a wheel carrier on the running boards for the Goshawk 11 model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan147 | |
| Date | 8th April 1922 | |
| To EY. from Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} c. to CJ. c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X3730 Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Evl/M8.4.22. GOSHAWK 11. WHEELS ON RUNNING BOARDS. X.3599. X.3730. We send you herewith N.sch.1249 shewing a scheme for a carrier supporting the wheel on the running boards, designed on the same lines as the carrier at the rear. The scheme is drawn for Dunlop wheels and the various slight changes for both Michelin disc and Rudge-Whitworth wheels are indicated. Would you please make schemes of these. We presume that either one or the other of the wire wheels, possibly Dunlop, will become standard, and customers requiring disc or R.W. wheels may be charged extra to cover the cost of the special parts entailed, (new bracket on frame and tube.) The position of the carrier is governed by the front door and we shall shortly send you a sketch shewing the carrier on both an open and closed car, together with the necessary information to be given on the coachwork point. Should we ever reach the stage of supplying standard wings, we will send you the modified drawings but at present all we need to make is the carrier, and the new step-iron. Will Derby please send 2 prints of this scheme in order that we may send one to London for their comments. Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||