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).
Engine design choices and the emerging superiority of steel bodies over coachbuilt ones.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\2\ img096 | |
| Date | 15th February 1934 guessed | |
| poor efficiency of the O.H.V and we must put it as far ahead of the side valve engine as it belongs. I still feel that we must test the 4-litre Bentley & O.H.V. inlet side valve exhaust on a single cyl unit because if you use a cast-iron block, alum head & crankcase, you don't loose much wt & might get a simple silent & efficient unit. Hudsons are carrying on research on this type of engine. Buicks are coming out with quite a small eight, about 240 cu. ins which will be right in the 20/25 size. Coachwork It is becoming increasingly evident that the coachbuilt-body as we know it - will not be able to compete with the steel body as a means of reinforcing the chassis. This means that with independent suspension we shall probably have to add costly stiffening to our frame instead of using the body as they do over here. The more I see of the best grade steel bodies here, the better I like them for absence of rattles & increase of frame rigidity. As we come to the Chrysler air-flows we get | ||