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).
Specifications for car body components including doors, seats, screen, head, and luggage boot.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 63\3\ scan0253 | |
| Date | 3rd January 1935 guessed | |
| -2- Doors. (Contd.) Door check stops of P.W.Bentley Pattern bolted on. Interior plate carrying the window lift gear to be of sheet steel S.W.G.12. Ford type ventilating windows to the front doors only. Bevelled junction to glasses. Rear doors to have dropping glasses. Bentley door locks with interior handles on the lock spindles to the front doors and remote control to the rear. All interior handles to be of the same approved design. Tension tie inside the door with adjustment to enable the door to be adjusted. Glass in all doors to be Triplex Toughened, of 3/16" thickness. Screen. Park Ward opening screen of Triplex laminated glass, 3/16" thick. Head. Head to be completely panelled. Panel to be quirked in both directions at the forward corners of the Sunshine Roof, and at the base of the screw pillar. Weathershield Sunshine Roof to drawing. Shape of eddy-free front to be made to template taken from G.Z.U.24. Cornice gutter, fared off front and rear to a point. Sunshine roof shield to be turned over a steel strip at the forward end and the fixing at the front to be by countersunk screws into a metal plate. Rear Seat. Cushion and squab to be of springs with Latex and padded overlay. Compressed dimensions to be to drawing LeC.4263. Seat base frame to be of sagging leather cloth. Rear squab to be detachable to permit the removal of the battery. Folding centre arm rest and fixed side arm rests containing ash trays. Pleated squabs and plain cushions. Front Seats. Park Ward Bentley Light Type Construction sliding bucket seats to dimensions given on LeC.4263. Cushions and squabs of sprung cases with Latex and padded overlay. Pleated squabs and plain cushions. Sliding mechanism Leveroll of latest type. Runners to be on body bottom sides and central tunnel. Underside of seat base to be 2 1/4 inches above the normal floor level. Luggage. Boot. Outer lid{A. J. Lidsey} to be of lightened construction and closed by means of a dual Silent Travel lock operated by two flush fitting handles with one private lock as agreed to by "Sales" for Bentley. Water and dust exclusion to be Contd: | ||