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).
Challenges of fitting a wireless aerial to a Spectre model car with a metal roof.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 63\3\ scan0190 | |
| Date | 19th November 1934 | |
| TO Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. from EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} r6153. EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/19.11.34. RE WIRELESS AERIAL. SPECTRECodename for Phantom III. Both Messrs Park Ward & Co. and the Philco Co. say that the aerial carried in the roof when the latter is fully panelled is no use. The roof of 31.EX. is all metal so we do not like to fit the aerial which you supplied. Where was the aerial on the Cadillac? The best results so far have been obtained with an earial consisting of insulated wire looped up under the running board. We cannot use the metal running board with rubber strips which is our normal design now, as the panel screens the aerial. We have to use the old wooden board covered with Lin-Rubber. Will you please tell Messrs Park Ward & Co. what you would recommend. If you want to write to me whilst I am in London you had better do so to my home address as any letters sent to Lillie Hall will be forwarded on to Derby. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Home Address. ALFRISTON. EDENBRIDGE. KENT. | ||