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).
Questioning the fitment of a car body on an experimental chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\1\ scan0055 | |
| Date | 13th September 1924 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} (Secret) Y-8830 C7/C13.9.24. Bodies for Experimental Chassis. ---- With reference to R3/M29.8.24, you will notice that R.{Sir Henry Royce} mentions that even a 6 ft. man would find it necessary to have a cushion to drive this car. We cannot understand how this can possibly be, if the body is as originally purchased and for the chassis to which it was fitted, and we were wondering whether this particular body has been transferred to another chassis with some special experimental features on it, such as pedals further forward. Would you please let us know, and also what particular body it is that R.{Sir Henry Royce} is referring to. We presume, in any case, that this is one of the bodies that we bought in a block when you were in a particular hurry to get bodies and we had to take just what we could get. C. | ||