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).
The design features and issues of a Gwynne all-weather body fitted to a Goshawk car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan135 | |
| Date | 23th March 1922 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- for an "arm inside" drive. One feature of this Gwynne all- weather is that the sides of the body must be parallel, therefore the width of the wheel arch determines the width of the body at the front seats. (7) No instrument board brackets were sent out with the chassis but a reasonably good fixing was provided by the coach- builders, attaching the column direct to the scuttle hoop. The arrangement of the instruments was not standard and the clock appeared to be very huge. The starting carburetter rod was too short and could not be connected up. (8) The running boards were raised to a height sufficient to allow them to join the frame and no valance to be used. I do not like the look of this arrangement. No box was provided to enclose the rear spring, and one would fear quantities of mud will be thrown up through the hole which is left. The valance of the front wing fitted the frame rather badly. On the whole the Gwynne all-weather head would appear to be quite a success on a Goshawk car. Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||