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).
List of annoying features noted on a vehicle's body construction independent of the steel body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90\5\ scan0055 | |
| Date | 3rd September 1935 | |
| -2- The following features were noted which are quite independent of the steel body construction but which were sufficiently annoying to put on record :- (1) The inside petrol filler was a source of perpetual annoyance. The cap was exceedingly difficult to operate, the compartment housing the cap got full of dust. It is difficult to get the ordinary petrol pump filler nozzle into the cap, and this is even more so where the right-hand rule of the road is in operation. (2) The sunshine roof rattles, as has every other sunshine roof with which we have come into contact. It also was not water-tight. (3) The attachment of the door checks was too fragile. (4) The attachment of the door wedges was unsatisfactory, the majority of these worked loose. It is inevitable that if the door wedges work loose the doors will rattle. Considering the impression of bad suspension which can be created by a body rattle, we think the fixing of these door wedges should have more attention. (5) The rear luggage compartment appeared to be a dust trap. In Hungary in dry weather there is an inch of soft dust on 95% of the roads. At speeds above 50 m.p.h. the dust came straight in through the luggage compartment through a gap which had been left at the back of the rear seat, and smothered everything inside the car. We do not know whether the sealing of the luggage compartment is different on this car to standard, but we are sure that it is not the best that can be done. (6) The special ventilation system fitted to the car did not work because it was obscured by the bumper bar. In any case we think the flow of air into the body would be greatly reduced owing to the long length of pipe necessary to convey this air from the aperture to the scuttle, and furthermore, the experiments we have been doing on carburetter air intakes show that a large rise in temperature would take place in the rubber pipes under the body. We cannot see that this scheme is so good as the Spinney ventilator. | ||