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).
Body types for the EAC.10 super-sports chassis and proposing the name 'Phantom II'.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 65a\1\ scan0269 | |
| Date | 7th February 1928 | |
| To R.{Sir Henry Royce} From BJ. Copy to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} C.S. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} SECRET. X7770 BJ14/E7.2.28 SUPER SPORTS - EAC.10. We would suggest that, in order to judge EAC.10 for general purposes, two types of bodies might be prepared immediately, one a cabriolet de ville such as you are at present using, and the other a heavier and larger type of body such as many of our customers use. As you consider there will be no necessity for alterations to this chassis to make it suitable for a sports car, there is no reason why a sports body should not be made as well, and all these three can then be tested at the same time, as presumably at least three chassis will be necessary for making thorough tests of this entirely new type of chassis. In regard to the underframes we of course do not know how far it will be possible to use the system used in our sports bodies where the heavy closed type of bodies are used and where the sides of the bodies are of an entirely different design. Perhaps you might like to have the sports body made with the special system suited to the sports bodies, and the closed bodies made on underframes. You will know best what is suited for the different types of bodies. In regard to the name, we suggest continuing to call this "the super-sports chassis" until right up to the day we supply it to the public. We could then have a name ready such as "Phantom II". BJ. | ||