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).
Letter discussing design specifications for a car body, including beading, windscreen, scuttle, and instrument board.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 183\M22\ img121 | |
| Date | 21th September 1920 | |
| To DAY from E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} SEP C 120 ORIGINAL RECEIVED REF R10/63/9/20 21/W/9/20. Handwritten notes: 6 EX (R's SECOND POST-WAR BODY) - PARK WARD SAN'S BEADING / A NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE REQUIREMENT IN 1920 X.4152 SPINNEY RECOMMENDS, DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} DESIGNS. X.4162 E' INSTRUCTS & PROGRESSES. We send you herewith the original drawing of LeC.1280 showing the above. Would you kindly send a blue print of this drawing to Mr. Cowen for Messrs. Park Ward, who will make this body in London. Would you also send us a print for our files, and a print to Lord Herbert Scott, in accordance with Mr. Royce's memo R11/02/9/20 to LHS.{Lord Herbert Scott} The body has been shewn without beading on the outside, and without beading around the doors, and it is desired that the body should be made in this way. If, however, the difficulties of construction are too great, it is permissible to follow the more usual form shewn in fig. 2. The windscreen is of the type given in the first drawing we sent you (LeC.1254) and the division in the glass, together with the top of the screen, have been raised in accordance with Mr. Spinney's recommendation. The scuttle is the smallest that we were able to draw, which would allow of the inside position for the hand brake lever. The instrument board is of special design, and shows the speedometer in a position near to the driver, together with a new fitting between the gauges and the hand pump, which will contain the ignition switch, inspection lamp socket, and press button for instrument board light. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||