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).
Australian market feedback on car design, proposing modifications to the 20 HP model based on customer preference.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\2\ scan0036 | |
| Date | 16th January 1925 | |
| Whr.{Mr Wheeler} London. C. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Derby. C.C. London. C.C. Derby. I.S. Derby. Further to my memo. re the Australian public's desire to seat three on the back seat, the difficulty of which in our cars leads to adverse criticism, there is another point upon which buyers are insistent, and that is the absence of bulge with severe S.C. curves on scuttles of our cars. This has been obviated in the latest 20 H.P. by the widening of the dashboard and the moving inward to a considerable extent of the side levers, but the fault still exists in 20 H.P. and constitutes a very bad sales resistance in this market. Could we not raise the radiator and dashboard and widen the latter on the 20 H.P. as we have done already on the 40/50 H.P.? | ||