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 width issues on the Phantom III chassis to accommodate new rubber mountings, referencing defects on Park Ward and Hooper coachwork.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\1\ scan0266 | |
| Date | 28th April 1936 | |
| To Mr. [REDACTED] Copy to Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} [REDACTED] X304 E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}5/MN.28.4.36. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Re Park Ward Sedanca - 37-EX. We are attaching hereto a copy of a letter we have had to send to Messrs. Park Ward & Co., which is self-explanatory. We think this matter is of interest to you in as much as Messrs. Park Ward & Co. and other Coachbuilders will be preparing or will have partly built a number of bodies for Phantom III, in which the defect of the Park Ward body is apparent. A similar defect, but to a lesser degree was experienced on the Hooper Enclosed Limousine taken from our Olympia Show stand and mounted on our chassis 36-EX. It is essential that the body should be wide enough at the base to accommodate our rubber mounting. We appreciate that both these bodies were built prior to our inventing the rubber mounting, but they were built at a time when the petrol filter was on the side of the chassis frame, and had they have been built of a width at the base sufficient to accommodate this filter they would have had the adequate bearings on the body brackets. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Att: | ||