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).
Trial of a one-piece, top-hinged front windscreen for a 20 HP Saloon Limousine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5\2\ 02-page037 | |
| Date | 1st May 1926 | |
| S/A.{Mr Adams} Hw. Try Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X5830 CWB6/PD/1-5-26. Re: 20 h.p. Saloon Limousine for 10,000 mile Trial Car. Reference attached. I am still not convinced of the impracticability of a front screen in one piece hinged at the top. This scheme is carried out on a large number of American cars, and if they can do it successfully we should be able to do the same. I believe even the Essex-Six Saloon is so fitted. The object of my suggestion was to obtain experience of the one-piece front screen to learn by use of it whether it was necessary that it should open, or whether the fixed screen would, in practice, be quite satisfactory. Even then, if Messrs.Hooper, are not prepared to recommend it, I still think we should go forward for our own information. [Signature] CWB. [Stamp: RECEIVED DESIGN DEPT 3 MAY 1926] | ||