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).
Negative impact of longer scuttles on chassis accessibility and proposing an alternative design for windscreen placement.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\3\ scan0243 | |
| Date | 23th August 1920 | |
| X 3922 To PN.{Mr Northey} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} Copy to CJ. " " C. " " Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} " " SP.{Mr Spinney} " " R.R. of America Inc. (For the attention of OY.) COPY to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} R22/G23.8.20. X.3444. RE SCUTTLES. (For C. & D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} steering.) We understand that it has lately been a fairly universal practice to fit longer scuttles which necessitates a narrower door-way to the front seats. This is in connection with "D" steering, and I find from personal experience, it almost impossible to examine or adjust anything in the neighbourhood of the clutch, dynamo, or starting motor, and this system should be discouraged or modified in some way so as to make the engineering part of the chassis accessible. X 3922 When it is desired to have the windscreen rather closer to the steering wheel, we think it should be done by inclining the whole or part of the glass. This should be carried out more boldly than is done even in PN{Mr Northey}'s open trials car. Though I have found some slight advantage in having the glass nearer the steering wheel, I cannot say that it is really worth making the front seats and the chassis too inaccessible, and I should prefer the continuance of the older proportions unless some modification can be found that will give us the advantage claimed, without the serious disadvantage of inaccessibility. R.{Sir Henry Royce} (upside down text) R.R. 285A (100 T) (S.G. 648. 19-2-20) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2613 | ||