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 specifics for a lightened type B.V. body, including a 'Vee' windscreen and an American-style instrument panel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\2\ scan0325 | |
| Date | 23th April 1940 | |
| 1021 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}15/ML. 23.4.40. C.W.Ward,Esq., Park Wards Ltd., Willesden. N.W.10. Dear Ward, LIGHTENED TYPE B.V. BODY. I am anxious that one of the two lightened type B.V. bodies which you have under consideration, should be made with a "Vee" windscreen and an American type instrument board, in which the wireless is carried on the panel. We are preparing some preliminary drawings of what we suggest but should like you to be sure that the construction of the body does not proceed too far to prevent us altering the windscreen and scuttle to the proposed new design. Yours sincerely, | ||