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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).
Continued document detailing numbered points on construction and mentioning an attached report on subframe difficulties.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 15\4\  Scan040
Date  1st February 1929 guessed
  
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jigs consisting of a dashboard, steering column and frame side members so that they can work more accurately.

(8) The seats are mounted on the subframe through the coachwork construction.

(9) The floor is not sunk on the present subframe.

(10) We find no difficulty in making an admirable seal with our present semi isolation scheme; a thick spritx strip of sorbo sheet rubber filling in the space between the bolts all round the dash.

(11) The precautions taken in (7) enable the coachbuilders to adjust the door openings.

We attach a report from Mr. Lidsey on some of the difficulties we have had with subframes.

HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Bm.
  
  


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