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).
Page 3 of a document detailing specifications for vehicle bodywork and fittings, including the luggage boot, lamps, wings, and steps.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 63\3\ scan0254 | |
| Date | 3rd January 1935 guessed | |
| -3- Luggage Boot. (Contd). achieved by a metal edge on the lid{A. J. Lidsey} bedding into a channel filled with sponge rubber. Inner lid{A. J. Lidsey} to be of lightened construction preferably all in aluminium, and locked by two flush handles. Floor to be covered with rubber, with trap doors for access to the rear axle, the petrol tank fittings and the tail lamp. Tools of seldom use to be housed in top of luggage boot. Tail Lamp. Number Plate. etc. Gallay Rear Number Plate with white illuminated letters and a red insert as tail lamp at each end of the plate. Separate stop and reverse lamp. The reverse lamp to take a 3 amp. head-lamp bulb, and to have a mauve warning lamp on the instrument board. Scuttle Isolation. Scuttle isolation to be fitted up to R.R. design supplied. Instrument Board. Plywood board with veneered face, as shown on D.74847. All extra switches to have flangeless mounting and to be marked by an identification plate. The board must allow of the steering column being set in its highest adjustment position. Screen Wiper. Dual Klaxon electrical screen wiper of 140° angle of wipe. Motor mounted on near side face of dashboard on R.R. bracket. Screen rail capping to be cut up between the wiper boxes to give greatest ease of vision for the instruments. Front Wings. Front wings to be of Aluminium of S.W.G.16. Mounted on the front wing stay and to the bonnet rest strip and the front end of the running board only. Wing shape and clearances to drawings supplied. Stone shields to be bolted in position. All joints between sheet metal and metal to have insulating strip of Kautex 1/16th.inch thick. Horizontal mudlip to have vertical downward lip on inner edge 1" deep. Steps. Steps to be constructed of sheet aluminium S.W.G. with no wooden board beneath. Tread to consist of rubber strips of the new small section in Stainless Steel channels. Rear Wings. Rear wings to be of sheet aluminium, S.W.G.bolted to the body only. Stone shield to be bolted in position. Mud lip as for front wings. Contd: | ||