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 evolution of car body design, aesthetics, and space efficiency.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 170\3\ img195 | |
| Date | 25th July 1939 guessed | |
| 3 Somewhere and not as though it were falling over backwards. By lowering both floor and roof equally, the front view of the car has settled down into place, in such a way as to avoid unnecessary frontal area, but at the same time to occupy the cross-sectional area usefully. In end view the American cars have become good, since the rear wings have almost been swallowed up in the body and in most cars the actual occupiable width of the body is at least equal to the wheel track. The component masses of the vehicle, bonnet, body and integral trunk, have got set in agreeable relation to each other and to the wheels. And a lot of redundancies have disappeared, such as trunk racks, lamp standards and separate lamp-shells, hood-catches, and hinges, running-boards, etc. Wheels, cheaper, lighter, and better than the old types, have been made to match the general appearance of the car. The relationship of the useful passenger and baggage space to the total area occupied by the car on the road has been improved. And in more advanced models, such as the | ||