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).
Issue with the Phantom's rear wheel and luggage carrier.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 13\5\ Spare05-page018 | |
| Date | 13th June 1928 | |
| BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X7600 EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}3/13.6.28. RE. REAR WHEEL AND LUGGAGE CARRIER - PHANTOM. X.7600 X.7400 We notice on F.78722 that the body rail and luggage grid when folded up are not vertical, but that the latter leans back towards the wheel. We presume that this has been done to avoid the knocking of the tube at the top of the wheel carrier centre plate against the tube of the grid opposite to it. If this is so we think that it is not what we had agreed to be done. We understood that Expl: Dept: had suggested rubber rings around the first mentioned tube and that we had agreed to this. We do not like the scheme adopted on F.78722 chiefly because the amount of separation is so great. If this were reduced to say .250 ins. between the top tubes this would give about .187 ins. between the two tubes that chatter. We would suggest that this should be ample. The above suggestion can be adopted without modification to the dies for F.77128 as the shifting of the hinge pin hole would be very slight. Failing this, for reasons unseen, one would go to the scheme adopted on EAC.10 of not putting the tubes in question opposite each other. The grid tube would be raised. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||