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).
Visit to H.S. Mulliner to inspect a Weymann fabric body being built on a Bentley chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0366 | |
| Date | 4th April 1935 | |
| To Eg., & Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} From EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Copy to C., LHD. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} (JLL. and LA.{L. A. Archer}) Weymann Body by H.S.Mulliner on Bentley Chassis. As requested we visited Messrs.H.S.Mulliner of Chiswick to see the fabric Weymann Body which they are building on a Bentley for Mr. Minchin. The body was framed and mounted, awaiting the attachment of the padding and fabric. From the attached print the fundamentals of the construction may be seen. The bottom side, which is an edge plate, is attached by sheet steel brackets to the chassis body brackets, there being a layer of Kautex between the two bolted surfaces to distribute the load and prevent squeaks. The scuttle pillar, the screen pillar, the centre pillar and the rear wheel arch bend are attached to the edgeplate by means of two Silent Travel Fittings, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 3, so allowing a degree of relative movement. The extension of the bottom side which passes over the top of the frame at the base of the rear wheel arch is rigidly attached to the front end of the wheel arch bend, and is mounted on the standard chassis body brackets by means of Silent Travel Fittings as shewn in Figs.1 and 2. This bottomside extension is not in any other way attached to the edge plate than via the wheel arch bend. Apart from these special features the rest of the body shell is of the normal rigid construction, and has no Weymann Flexible Joints. The basic idea is that the Silent Travel Fittings will absorb the majority of the chassis frame distortion and sufficient flexibility will be left in the body to deal with the rest even using normal joints. The doors have been jointed by Weymann Steel Bars, but on testing the door for twist it was obvious that as fitted these bars produce as rigid a result as that produced by normal construction. Cont'd | ||