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).
The enclosed limousine body of a 16-cylinder Cadillac.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 125\1\ scan0193 | |
| Date | 21th February 1935 | |
| 21.2.35. REPORT ON ENCLOSED LIMOUSINE BODY OF 16 CYLINDER CADILLAC. TYPE & MAKER. The body is an enclosed limousine with dropping division and facing forward extra seats. The roof is fixed. It has a small locker at the back for the accommodation of a small amount of luggage, and apparently of a spare wheel, although the spare wheels are actually carried one in each front wing and supported by very rigid brackets. There is, in addition, a luggage grid of the swivelling arm pattern rather nicely made and not heavy. The body was built by the Fleetwood Body Corporation. CONSTRUCTION. The body is constructed of ash framing with oak bottomsides, supplemented by steel members (pressings) where practical, and steel strengthening plates. The panels are of pressed steel of various gauges mostly 18 S.W.G. and 20 S.W.G. The scuttle is made up of steel pressings, swaged and reinforced for strength. It is in one with the 15 S.W.G. steel dashboard, the back of which is lined with 3" of heat resisting and sound deadening material, whilst the sides of the scuttle are lined with felt. The whole structure is immensely strong. The front pillars are of wood, braced to the body dash with large pressings. They are heavy in appearance with well rounded corners top and bottom. The front doors are built up in wood but panelled in steel and doped on the inner sides as a precaution against drumming. They are wide and each carried on two visible hinges, inserted through slots in the faces of the U. section centre pillars which are steel pressings. The hinges are held by metal thread screws and it was observed that some of the screws were loose. The hinges are grooved to take grease but no means is provided to permit of introduction of grease. Most of the hinges show signs of wear. | ||