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).
Rationalisation of coachbuilding practices, including body types and wheelbases.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\2\ scan0266 | |
Date | 29th March 1940 guessed | |
- 2 - Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/ML. You may also have some suggestions as to how our ideas can be better translated into steel coachbuilding practice. The other matter requiring your attention is the rationalisation of 4 light and 6 light custom built bodies with divisions. We are proposing at the moment to cut out the 10' 10" wheel base from our range and have all bodies larger than the B.V. bodies built on 11' 1". If you and Giles will carefully consider how pieces of these 2 types of body can be made interchangeable and whether advantage can be taken of any of the pressings off the B.V. tools we might get Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} to agree to your making a rationalised custom built body experimentally which would incorporate the maximum amount of interchangeability and cost reduction. Yours sincerely, | ||