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).
Letter discussing the design of an enclosed body for a new six-cylinder car, comparing its proportions to American cars and detailing frame height.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan008 | |
| Date | 12th January 1921 | |
| Contd. -2- R6/G12.1.21. coachbuilders drawings at any time now, so that we can get Barkers or Hoppers or some first class coachbuilders to design a suitable enclosed body, a rough model of which they could make for putting on a dummy chassis, which we will produce as early as possible at Derby, but you can rest assured that for its size it will be capable of being made as elegant as any car you have seen, as the extra length of the small six-cylinder engine will always make it look better than would be the case if it were a four-cylinder engine. The only thing that is necessary is to take notes of the points mentioned in this letter, that the height shall be kept down, and the width at the back. The width at the instrument board shall be made wider than the American cars. Those we have seen here gradually get wider towards the back, whereas the open bodies I have proportioned are more boat-shaped, having their maximum width just behind the centre of the length of the complete car. The frames in all qur new models have been kept as low as it is possible to make them; they are lower than the present, and the average of others. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||