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).
The urgent requirement for a subframe arrangement for mounting the car body, noting its advantages over the Phantom model.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\S\March1928-May1928\ Scan166 | |
| Date | 5th May 1928 | |
| To R.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c.c. to BJ. WHT. c.c. to E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c.c. to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} ORIGINAL. SECRET. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/LG5. 5. 28. EAC.10 [handwritten, crossed out: X7770] [handwritten, circled: X7830] We are looking into the question of what designs we [word struck through] are still waiting for before one of these chassis can be completed. A full report showing the position at Derby is being got out. In the meantime one of the most urgent instructions we require is the arrangement of subframe for mounting the body. We strongly recommend that subframes are used as standard on this car because we have proved definitely they are an advantage as regards reducing body noises and the wear and tear on bodies, also they enable the body to be completed without sending the chassis to the coachbuilders. This should prove an enormous advantage when we come to the point of changing over from the Phantom. As the subframes are required very early on in the body-building stage, this is the part we should like to get moving. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||