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).
The removal of an oil tank and the fitting of wheel carriers to chassis 9-PK for subframe experiments.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\1\ scan0130 | |
| Date | 15th May 1925 | |
| X 8830 TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/15.5.25. re. 9-PK. We have received 9-PK. and the coachbuilders tell us that the oil tank was still on. We have asked them to take it off and dispense with it. They also say that there are no wheel carriers fitted. These are essential to the subframe experiments as the ones they use are unsuitable. We would be glad therefore if you could arrange to have two carriers fitted to this chassis in the position in which they would be on a 'V' series car, so that the wings etc will be suitably constructed as far as the trough is concerned. We now learn that the side levers foul the cross-member of the body. We are trying to ascertain the cause DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} [Signature] | ||