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).
Complications with rubber-mounting De Ville extension coachwork on a Phantom III.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\1\ scan0271 | |
| Date | 15th May 1936 | |
| To Mr. [redacted] Copy to Mr. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Gry{Shadwell Grylls}- F.D. E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/MN.15.5.36. +304 Re Coachwork with De Ville Extension - Phantom III. Many thanks for your Mn.15/MK.9.5.36 re the above. The introduction of rubber mounting of bodies has complicated the issue concerning the building of De Ville extension coachwork in as much as the body no longer receives the full, or anything like the full reinforcement from the chassis frame. At the same time the placing of the petrol filter on the outside of the chassis frame prevents the use of a continuous vertical edge-plate along the outside of the body runner. It would appear that the only possible course to adopt would be that of plating the 1½" deep wooden bottom side both inside and out with the old-fashioned thick strip iron on the edge, and running limbs from it up the screen pillar. The sedanca which we bought from Messrs.Park Ward & Co. which they exhibited at Olympia, has now been mounted on rubber. By pulling at the top of the screen pillar one can move the whole pillar backwards and forwards. The only salvation may be that the frame is so stiff and will not distort, and therefore there will be no tendency for the screen pillars to open and shut with respect to the door. As soon as we get 38-Ex on the road we shall examine this car from this point of view and until we have had some experience, and in view of the foregoing conclusions we do not feel in a position to make any recommendations to Coachbuilders. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||