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).
Departmental memo discussing the decision not to adopt a closed dashboard in favour of an open dash for improved cooling.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\4\ scan0131 | |
| Date | 10th July 1912 | |
| 22.5.12) E.P. 1898. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 813 (TWO LINES). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. DATE. TBB 10-7-12 -2- recommends is not to adopt the closed in dashboard but to be satisfied for the present with the open dash and ventilated engine guards and to experiment with dashboard ventilators etc. Mr Royce's point is that by this scheme we gain some considerable advantage in obtaining a cooler radiator and we may obtain some advantage in the direction of cooler floorboards by the ventilated dashboard, although perhaps not quite so much as by filling in the dashboard. T B Barrington CJ a/c / 10-7-12 Re. Instruct closed dash to be Std/d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} R examined these with me & was quite satisfied with them CJ This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||