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).
Additional weight on a 4-B-IV model, luggage platforms, and proposals for a standardised Saloon.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 3\6\ 06-page299 | |
| Date | 30th October 1934 | |
| -2- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rs.{Sir Henry Royce's Secretary} 28/KF.30.10:34. We quite appreciate that some of the additional weight on 4-B-IV is due to the method of arranging the back with the additional platform for luggage. I shall be very interested to have your view on this matter because if there really is a saving in weight with the smaller body I propose to agitate strongly that it shall be available as a standardised Saloon, etc. I should also like to know whether you see any prospects of bodies being made lighter. I know you have had to put some more weight in to overcome some of the initial troubles, but having done this can we get any of it back ? Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}; | ||