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).
List of required modifications and specifications for a vehicle, page 2.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90a\4\ Scan152 | |
| Date | 5th May 1936 | |
| -2- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/KW5.5.36. (8) A second petrol pump should be fitted on the dashboard close to the existing petrol pump, with means to couple up. (9) Provision for the petrol gauge should be made on the instrument board. (10) Provision must be made for cooling the rear axle and gearbox via the undershield. (11) The existing exhaust system should be substituted for the large manifold and a 2 1/4" straight through pipe of the same gauge as in last year's T.T. exhaust system or thereabouts. (12) Magnesium dashboard and clutch pit should be fitted. (13) 32-gallon petrol tank. (14) Crankcase oil filler to be made accessible without opening the bonnet. (15) Spare wheel carrier to be fitted. (16) All unions to have provision for locking with wires. Also petrol fillers, radiator fillers and oil fillers. (17) The exhaust pipe to be lagged the whole way where it passes through the undershield. (18) Leave the axle ratio as at present for preliminary tests. (19) A figure for the complete car should be taken before and after alteration. Other points may crop up which I should be glad if you would deal with; also any further variation to specification. It is essential that we should get a bump test on the spare wheel carrier. Unless the undershield protects it we should recommend a stone guard of the type fitted by Hancock to his last 15,000 miles Bentley. | ||