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).
Repair of chassis 4-B-IV, the disposal of its body, and considerations for all-steel body construction.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\2\ scan0165 | |
| Date | 2nd March 1936 | |
| x260 W/S - C. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/KW.2.3.36. 4-B-IV. Replying to C.13/C.24.2.35. Chassis 4-B-IV is of course repairable and we recommend that it should be rebuilt right away. The repairs required will be extensive as it will mean a new frame. The body is badly knocked about, but we should say is repairable. It is a body, however, in which we have no interest whatever experimentally, and after this smash-up it would be impossible to get much information from it should it deteriorate in the future. We therefore recommend that it should be repaired and disposed of, and that a body in which we have a definite interest should be fitted to this chassis. We should have thought that in view of the quantities of all-steel bodies being ordered, it would have been most useful to have had one of these running about under our own observation. Lappin's car does such a large mileage in all weathers that it would be a good test for freedom from rust, etc. Of course you may consider the silent-bloc body more important, but we thought that this had been superseded for production by the all-steel construction. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||