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).
Scuttle isolation, proposing modifications to the scuttle side buffer and drain tube for specific car models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\1\ scan0072 | |
| Date | 7th February 1935 | |
| [Handwritten] +304 DODD. This is something [text crossed out] We should get this on the cars. Pim [Typed] SECRET. To EY. from EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/HP.7.2.35. c.c. RHG. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} SpectreCodename for Phantom III Scuttle Isolation. We send herewith LeC.4294, shewing the attachment of the body scuttle to the dash. This scheme is applicable to 31-EX and 32-EX as well as subsequent cars. We would like very much to get the new design of scuttle side buffer fitted to 31-EX, and suggest that this may be possible as it only calls for drilling in the wall of the dashboard pot. The body for 31-EX has not been fitted with the drain tube through the scuttle frame in the well formed to clear the top hinge of the bonnet. This leads the water which collects away round the dash. We would like this tube to be inserted in the body by merely drilling the rail and pressing in a piece of copper tube. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} LeC.4294 herewith. | ||