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 from C. L. Breeden to W.A. Robotham providing feedback on car body issues, including poor door locks and a creaking roof.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\5\ scan0223 | |
| Date | 11th June 1941 | |
| W.A. Robotham Esq. 3. 11th June 1941. and work in unison. An immense amount of thought has obviously been given to the chassis, as well as engineering genius. The fact that performance of that type can proceed with such smoothness is a tribute to all of you, but that a couple of ventilating windows should be fitted on a body that make a constant tin-can rattle is hardly in keeping with all the work that has been done on the chassis. The door locks are bad. I never liked these locks at all. The dovetail portion made in the press tends to open or close, and one of the locks is sticking very badly owing to the fact that it is not uniform. Since I first visited you and you came down here in a body to discuss these matters, we have done a lot of work of the kind that would receive your approval. The locks that we shall submit to you have had a great deal of thought and will have had a great deal of destructive test, and in conjunction with the striking plates that we shall submit they should be orthodox in principle and yet be silent closing. The sliding roof of my car is constantly creaking all the time one is going along, and during war time I am informed nothing can be done about that, but you have just got to steep yourself in this body stuff for the future! It is surprising how good some of the small cheap stuff is where the body is engineered. I shall look forward to seeing you at Belper at 12 o'clock on Wednesday the 18th instant. Yours sincerely, C. L. Breeden | ||