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).
Complaint about an overheating near-side rear seat and requesting the fabrication of an asbestos and aluminium heat shield.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 111\4\ scan0199 | |
| Date | 15th April 1940 | |
| 800a To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} c. to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}8/JH.15.4.40. 4.B.50. We have received a complaint from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} that the near side rear seating position on this car gets over-hot, this we agree with. The reason is that the twin exhaust boxes sweep up the frame and are placed immediately beneath the seat board which gets impossibly hot. Will you please arrange for a shield to be made of asbestos and aluminium sheet to cover the exhaust boxes on similar lines to the old exhaust silencer shields. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} P.T.O. | ||