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).
Issues and complaints with bodywork and fittings, including seats, ventilator lids, and locks.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0284 | |
| Date | 6th July 1934 | |
| - 4 - contd. EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/IH.6.7.34. boot and the body itself. Rattles are, therefore, complained of. We do not like the Park Ward stop as now fitted, because it consists of a piece of hard fibre. We think that rather generous rubber buffers ought to be used similar to those used by most other coachbuilders. Hard fibre can make as loud a knock as wood or sheet aluminium. (15) SLIDING SEATS. The nearside sliding seat rattles when it is unoccupied. (16) SCUTTLE VENTILATOR LID.{A. J. Lidsey} The scuttle ventilator lid{A. J. Lidsey} has a very poor finish on it, not nearly so good as the finish on the rest of the scuttle. We have noticed this on several cars. (17) LOCKS. We pointed out to the owner that the bolts of his locks were slightly rusty and he admits that he was told to grease them but dare not do so because his wife says she refuses to have her clothes spoilt. This is a real trouble and one wonders whether we ought not to consider some other type of lock. To use the orthodox lock, such as we could use when our doors were held in dovetails, is mechanically unsound today. The door is floating on flexible buffers and therefore violent scraping action must occur on the bolt of the lock. This action is the cause of the rapid rusting. We propose trying the "Silent-Bloc" lock, which has no moving metallic contact, because it looks mechanically right, and for the reasons we have already quoted, it has become almost universal in France. The Owner complains that the steampipe from the radiator rattles where it passes in the close proximity of the radiator matrix and the cross member. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||