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).
Plan to build the lightest possible 8-cylinder motor car based on the Corniche chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 132\2\ scan0142 | |
| Date | 10th July 1941 | |
| To: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Wnr. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/EAG. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GB. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Col. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/MHR.{M. H. Rigby} Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}/JD.{J. Draper - Frames} 1115 Out of the Corniche chassis which at present exists, we are going to build the lightest 8-cylinder motor car that we can produce without making a lot of new parts. This will necessitate Ward fitting a bent front pan. As far as weight saving is concerned, the figures given are the anticipated saving on the new car compared with 11.B.V., which was the lightest 8-cylinder car we produced before the war, but which had not, of course, a very light body. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||