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 failure to fit a three-bladed wiper to Car No. 38-EX and proposals for alternative experiments.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 167\5\ img180 | |
| Date | 12th October 1936 | |
| 8611S. S/W. Copy to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}9/MK.12.10.36. Three-Bladed Berkshire Wiper. Your Ref: G/Cam/CA.37/DW.9.10.36. Park Ward found it was impossible to accommodate the three-bladed wiper, the third blade of which operates on the inner side of the glass, because there was insufficient clearance in front of the steering wheel to permit of the driver's fingers clearing the wiper blade as it travels across the glass. Consequently, the experiment on Car. No. 38-EX, the one in question, has had to be abandoned but we have suggested in a separate note to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. that he should agree to the three-bladed wiper being fitted to a new body which Park Ward are about to lay down and on which sufficient clearance could be made. Alternatively, we have suggested that the three-bladed wiper might be tried out on a body it is proposed that Barkers should build for an experimental P.III chassis. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||