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).
Difficulties of creating a coupe body using the dies intended for the saloon model, with a comparison to Jaguar's methods.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\3\ scan0112 | |
| Date | 26th February 1940 | |
| -4- Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}7/JH.57.40. P.S.C. said it was not possible to make a side member pressing in a thicker gauge material for the coupe, using the dies for the saloon. During the discussion around the design of the coupe. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} pointed out that in the saloon design such as we have at the moment, the distance from the base of the screen to the junction between the rear quarter of the body at the boot is so great as to make it impossible for us to follow the Jaguar practice of cutting off the top of the saloon and using the whole of the body left below the waist-line for the construction of the coupe. If we wish to do as well as the Jaguar we should need to go away from the swept back panel and to reduce the distance in question to that for a coupe having the same interior seating dimensions as the saloon we have now drawn and then to draw a saloon to suit. We suggest that it might be desirable to investigate this treatment, otherwise we shall be able to use very little of our saloon in the construction of the coupe. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||