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).
Proposed design modifications for the Phantom II bonnet, dash, and radiator.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\4\ Scan079 | |
| Date | 13th February 1930 | |
| To EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} From Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} c. to C. Ey. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} +7500. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}17/E13.2.30. X.7500 X.7260 X.7250 X.7330 X.7770 Re. Revised Bonnet and Dash Phantom II. I am in receipt of E72/10.2.30. It does not seem to have been the general opinion that the radiator with the shallowed top tank was an improvement, and one would like to look at it again on this further experimental mock-up before a decision is given. With regard to a radiator with sloping sides to suit the taper of the bonnet, I am quite agreeable that this should be kept as a separate issue for investigation and attention after we have seen the further mock-up or experiment of what one may refer to as the Segrave modification modified and improved. I fully appreciate the necessity for a modification which will give us the higher waist line and that for the reasons mentioned in your memo. we are rather worse off on this important feature from a coachwork design point of view on Phantom II than on Phantom I. Please let me know as soon as the revised scheme has been send to Derby. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||