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).
Future car body design, comparing monocoque and separate frame constructions, and referencing American models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 113\5\ scan0147 | |
| Date | 29th October 1940 | |
| - 2 - Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} Having completed this design the body should then be reviewed and converted, as an entirely separate scheme, to the monocoque, with the necessary spring fixings, etc., etc., provided for. The ideal would be to get Ward to make both these bodies and base our future policy on the results obtained by test. Should this not be possible however, at the end of the war we shall know for certain that we have a car that can be put into production and which will give us a degree of silence to which we are accustomed. It is interesting to note that the American cars are still perpetuating the separate frame type of construction with outriggers, even though they appear to make singularly little use of the facilities for noise insulation which it provides. As an example, the Century model Buick, which we have, is thus equipped and yet is about as bad for road noise as any American car we have tried. RA. | ||