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).
Bodywork options for an experimental car, model E.A.C.II, and the logistics of using a dummy for visualization.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\1\ scan0082 | |
| Date | 14th October 1924 | |
| S/W Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Secret X8830 C7/C14.10.24. E.A.C.II Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/LG13.10.24. I discussed with CJ. this morning, before the receipt of your memo. the question of bodies for E.A.C.II, and he agrees to the suggestion as regards Covered bodies, that we should use a Pullman Limousine built for an ordinary 40/50 h.p., fit this to an ordinary 40/50 h.p. and then send the car to you so that you may transfer the body. With regard to the dummy, CJ. also agreed to our suggestion in regard to this, and really the only idea in fitting up the dummy, as you know, is to get some idea of what the car is going to look like. We think we could manage to get the dummy to Lillie Hall all right, without much trouble, and change over there, in one of the annexes. But on the question of the Open Touring bodies generally a new situation arises, namely that when these special Sports bodies were ordered it was reckoned that we were going to use these cars for Trials purposes and very quickly announce this particular car as a Sports model. In view, however, of the large amount of stock yet to be disposed of this policy has been changed and therefore your experimental E.A.C's should not be fitted with a special type of Sports body, which in itself is very noticeable and would simply have the effect of drawing attention to the experimental car. CJ. therefore thinks that these Sports bodies we are building we had better take delivery of from Barkers, but as soon as we get them, hide them until later on, and that we should fit up on the experimental chassis a body built for a 40/50 h.p. but altered to suit the E.A.C., even although it does not make a very elegant job. You will therefore see that this would rather spoil the suggestion you make in your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/LG13.10.24., which otherwise I quite agree would have been a more satisfactory method. I note you are sending off the standard radiator and bonnet for the dummy. Will you make arrangements for this to be fitted or will you be instructing Cricklewood to do this? C. | ||