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).
Memo discussing frame stiffness issues in convertible cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 125\1\ scan0085 | |
| Date | 9th June 1934 guessed | |
| are soft above the belt line. Our "convertibles" have been coming off the line. And they are atrocious. Some of them get by, by "cross-bandaging" the top and cross-bracing available panels, so long as the top is up. But when the top is down the smaller ones (Cad. 10 & 20), which have a light & lousy frame which we share with Buick, shake like bloody aspens. The big "Fleetwoods" which have a massive frame about 9" deep without any lightening holes, are not so bad. If anyone proposes to put a lightening hole in any part of your frame, drown him. Or if anyone proposes to do any fancy work at the center of your X member, crucify him. Burton has done some brilliant work with 1/4 scale models, of drawing paper, and thus has shown us what we have to do at the | ||