Letter to Park Ward & Co. detailing difficulties in fitting a Continental Touring Limousine body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 7\5\ X 604 Body-page117 | |
| Date | 8th April 1937 | |
| Copy to Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /PS. 604, E {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} /Ev. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} 11/MW. 8th. April, 1937. Messrs. Park Ward & Co., 473, High Road, Willesden, London, N.W.10. Dear Sirs, Re Continental Touring Limousine 25.G.6. We have now mounted the body of the above car and have experienced the following difficulties in fitting the same:- 1) The bonnet and scuttle did not match up and this was a difficulty we experienced with the previous car. The trouble centres round the position of the moulding and we enclose herewith a sketch showing a vertical section through the scuttle face at the rear end of the side hinge, on which we also show the shape of the moulding on your body. It will be noticed that the moulding is too far round the angle at the end of the scuttle, and by means of this sketch we hope you will be able to correct the two bodies you have in hand. 2) On both the previous body and this body we have had the trouble of noise coming up from the rear wheels due to there being no blanking off between the side ply-boards of the rear pot and the outside panelling of the body. This leaves an open tunnel which comes up from the tail of the body almost to the back of the rear squab. We have arranged to blank this off on the existing cars, so | ||
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).