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).
Car body design, including door access, dimensions for a Goshawk chassis, and acoustic booming.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan282 | |
| Date | 30th January 1923 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- crawl over the front seats. It would be far better for the one passenger of the front seat to have to climb over his own seat. We think that this too ought to be avoided by having a third door. The dimensions of the Gwynne all-weather body are too small in all 3 dimensions, but especially in the width for our Goshawk chassis, and we do not want the ugly box at the back. Regarding booming I hardly agree with you that the L.C.C. Hall can be compared with a body. To my mind a bad boomer is a body like a drum, whereas noisy halls are due to reflected sound. One is a question of diaphragms synchronising or setting up vibrations from various causes - the other is echos. I hope you will excuse my dissention. R, | ||