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 engineering challenges of combining chassis and coachwork, referencing Chrysler Airflow and Cadillac designs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 178\2\ img199 | |
| Date | 24th February 1934 | |
| -3- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/KW. 24.2.34. As we come to the Chrysler air-flows, we get one stage further in combining the chassis and coachwork. Here it is quite impossible to tell where the chassis starts and and body finishes. It seems to me that one of our biggest problems of the next few years is going to be to bring present English Coachwork into chassis engineering. Cadillacs think a lot of the 8 cylinder pipe shape shown on the drawing I send. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||