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).
Options for interior heating, ventilation, and defrosting systems.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 137\3\ scan0035 | |
Date | 3rd February 1939 | |
1158 S/W. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} c. " Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. " BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. " Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. " Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} c. " Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} c. " JLE.{J. Lee Evans - Chassis Test Manager} c. " BY/RD. c. " BY/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design} c. " Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}8/KW3.2.39. Interior Heating of R-R cars, and as Correlated Features, Ventilation and Defrosting and Demisting. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} has asked me to reply to your Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.6/ MH{M. Huckerby}23.1.39 ( a copy of which by the way marked off to me has never reached me yet), and to give you our considered views of the alternatives offered in this connection. We are all agreed that a combined heating and ventilation scheme is to be preferred, and is the ideal for which we should strive. As, however, its adoption is apparently dependent upon the availability of space below the front seat, which space you say is at present to be occupied by the battery, it is necessary to decide whether the battery could be accommodated elsewhere. As regards the inlet for the fresh air in connection with this scheme, for which you have provided a duct in a bulge in the offside front wing, we hope that there is nothing objectionable in the appearance of this arrangement. It would appear that in connection with such a scheme, i.e. the scheme (C) in your memo, not only could the usual Spinney ventilator be omitted but there would we believe be no need then for the hinged ventilation windows - commonly called 'no-draught' ventilation - which are now so frequently fitted. The saving in the cost of these as well as that of the scuttle ventilator would probably almost, if not entirely, balance the cost of the device as quoted. As regards the demisting and defrosting, it is (cont) | ||