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).
Coachwork design improvements, successful past models, and future body design strategy.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 74\1\ scan0029 | |
| Date | 10th June 1910 | |
| R.R. 348c (50 H) (F 901. 10.6.10.) E.P. 6883 DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/B14710 cont. 3. Issued........................... This column is for Name of Person addressed. DATE. able to show great improvements, in fact making the standard patterns of 1907 obsolete. Then came the revision of our contract with Messrs. Barker which brought about further improvements in our coachwork and forced them to move into a more up-to-date factory, and to completely re-organise their establishment. Mr. Royce's valuable criticisms as regards dimensions, height of seats etc. have proved of the greatest assistance to our coachbuilders and here I should like to point out that there is something in what Mr. Rolls says about having our coachwork supervised at Derby. For instance, the five most successful designs during 1907-1910 have been hatched at Conduit Street and not in Barker's drawing office viz. the Dalkeith type of 3/4 limousine landaulet which was the first type of its kind ever to be construc-ted by Messrs. Barker and which has become now generally popular throughout the country, the Northey enclosed limousine and the three Scott open bodies. We have now three new designs in hand for a landaulet, a cabriolet, and an open body, all rather novel in design & I have full confidence that they will prove a success. These again have origina-ted in Conduit Street, As regards Mr. Rolls's suggestion that we should build our own bodies, in theory, such a scheme would meet with my approba-tion and there are these points in favour of it:- This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||