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).
Design of engine guards and an experimental isolation scheme on London-Edinburgh type cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\4\ scan0058 | |
| Date | 23th March 1912 | |
| Handwritten: Engine guards designed on the CUT & COME AGAIN! R.R 285A (100 m) (X 590. 6.9 12) G 2368. Mr Johnson 23/3/12. Re heating of front floorboards on London-Edinburgh type. TBB2/L23312. In reply to your query, the mud and water enters at small holes and clearance space (for spring shackles, steering lever etc.) Engine guards generally speaking have to be designed on the cut and try again and incomplete success means that we have not succeeded at the first cut. In accordance with your previous instructions, these cars are being fitted with the isolation scheme which we are experimenting with. Owing to the comparatively few number of cars, and to the increased importance of this point on this type, we did not hold up these instructions until after the final tests of the device. We do not anticipate any serious trouble with respect to the exclusion | ||