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).
Process of providing information to coachbuilders for mounting vehicle bodies.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\8\ Scan158 | |
| Date | 29th April 1929 | |
| EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}4/29.4.29. cont. We shall give the coachbuilder ample information to enable him to avoid fouls. If he does not make his body correctly to our prints, it is he that will suffer, for he will have to mount the body. All we have to do is to be sure that:- (1) The subframe is correct. (2) The chassis is correct. (3) The subframe has not been damaged in transit. (4) The subframe has not been distorted in the building of the body. (5) The coachbuildersprints are correct. In the case of Barkers, Hoopers, Windovers, Thrupps etc. where there is a large number of our bodies being made, we shall indicate to the coachbuilder how he can construct a suitable jig. This will appear in our book on the subject of "Body Subframes". At the outset, for the first batch of bodies, the information given must of necessity be scanty, owing to secrecy, but we hope to be able to give ano the two proposed prints sufficient to avoid much trouble when mounting. For some years past it has been the custom of our leading coach-builders to lay down groups of 25 bodies for stock. They seem to have no trouble in mounting these, therefore we see no reason why there should be greater difficulty when we give them a subframe. The greatest difficulty lies in the first bodies prior to the lifting of the secrecy veil. The trouble with experimental bodies has had much of its origin in the fact that the bodies have been made from W.W. drawings which do not always agree with the chassis as made. Even in the case of the first bodies the wings, valances and steps will not be completed until the chassis is delivered. No doubt, later on, the leading coachbuilders will standardise these features as they do on Phantom now. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||