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).
Methods for carrying spare wheels fitted with R.W. Discs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 68\3\ scan0006 | |
| Date | 18th March 1920 | |
| X.3747 Attached Rjb/p 23.3.20 COPY. From S to W. (Sn{Mr Sanderson}). Sp{Mr Spinney}2/HW/18.3.20. RE CARRYING SPARE WHEEL FITTED WITH R.W. DISCS. In reply to your memo D/Snll/AW/17.3.20 I have received from you 10 Blueprints F.7901 showing the straps used for carrying spare wheel and the slots for the disc. I do not know of any Coachbuilder using this method of carrying spare wheel. I was told by Mr. Hives last Autumn that Mr. Royce did not like this arrangement of carrying spare wheels. It is the one fitted to a touring car which he has been using. I understand. We have therefore, not pressed coachbuilders to use it. Most Coachbuilders appear to be using the larger pad at the top with two straps and a single strap over the middle of the wheel at the bottom. Discs? Will you please say if you are supplying the R.W. I suggest that until we know definitely that a Coachbuilder is going to use the brackets shown on your drawing F.7901, the slots for the straps should not be cut in the discs. The objection to the brackets on the footboard is often raised by Coachbuilders when the front wings are splayed back a long way and the spare wheel has to be actually let into the wing and not into the footboard. This applies in the majority of cases. RDS. STAMP: EX. MAR 24 1920 VED | ||