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).
Page 2 of a letter detailing technical schemes for a car body, including radiator, scuttle, floor, and seating arrangements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5\2\ 02-page298 | |
| Date | 19th November 1929 guessed | |
| -2- level top of the chassis frame. N. Scheme 2980. Gives you the dimensions of the special radiator, bonnet and dash, which Mr. Royce wishes us to fit to this car. N. Scheme 2981. Shews the arrangement of the scuttle armature at the dashboard and its fixing to the front end of the subframe. The standard semi-isolation bolts will be used, but this need not worry you as they will be fitted by Derby. N. scheme 2982/85. Shews the arrangement of the rear floor. It will be noticed that the subframe is provided with cast aluminium pots which will ensure the correct clearances being maintained over the propeller shaft, chassis frame, and cross member. All that you have to do is to fit the boards. We would point out that in order to make the excrescence in the floor of the minimum height we have shewn the sponge rubber not passing over them but abutting against their edges. The arrangement of the floorboards, that is to say those which are on the chassis, will be carried out on the lines adopted for Phantom II. We understand that you will receive a subframe in about 10 days time. We think this will leave you nice time to produce the full size drawing. We would like this drawing to shew at least all the information and detail included in the various drawings which we have submitted to you. Especially do we wish to see the arrangement and mechanism of the auxiliary seats, and the proposed ironing of the various joints of the body. The writer will call on you as soon as the full size drawing is completed, so that even should the subframe not have arrived you can be going ahead roughing out some of the timbers. As stated in our specification the body will be collected from you complete, with partly finished wings etc. and mounted by our Derby Works. It is therefore very important that all our clearances as specified on our | ||