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).
Report page detailing the construction of the vehicle's doors, roof, and floor.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 125\1\ scan0194 | |
| Date | 21th February 1935 | |
| continued: - 2 - 21st.February, 1935. CONSTRUCTION. The rear doors are similar in construction and similarly hinged to the centre pillar. Generous clearance is allowed round the doors to permit of movement. There are double striking plates to the locks which are of the slam type and wick-fed with oil. The handles are fitted through rubber loaded bush escutcheons and are a loose fit in the lock tumblers. This is an ingenious way of reducing the risk of rattles and facilitates the fitting of the handles. The constant lubrication of the locks and the rubber mounting of the handles is undoubtedly responsible for the comparative ease with which the doors can be opened and closed. The inside latches to three of the doors are ingenious. They have the effect of freeing the lock control from the outside handle so that the handle can be moved without operating the lock, but the inside handle can still be used to open the door. There are spring loaded dovetails, the single type being fitted to the rear doors and the double type to the front. The roof has a large dome and an anti drumming insert of the usual type. It has the usual hoop sticks but is separated from the cantrails except for its very stiff U section steel supports. There are longitudinal slats over the hoop sticks. These slats are close together. The roof was fairly thickly padded, presumably to prevent drumming. The floor at the front is wood but the rear is a solid steel pressing with the usual foot wells formed in it and a centre flat arch for propeller shift clearance. This rear metal floor is doped to keep down heat and prevent drumming. It is heavy and cumbersome to handle, and secured to the body bottomsides by flanges, but being in one is effective in excluding draughts and fumes. | ||