Specifications for vehicle body components including panelling, wings, doors and glass.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 7\5\ X 604 Body-page007 | |
| Date | 30th September 1936 | |
| -2- Panelling. Body to be panelled completely in aluminium SWG.16, to be quirked at the base and top of the screen pillar. Rear Wings. Rear wings carried entirely on the wheel arch (and attached by bolts) made of aluminium SWG.16. Stone Shields. Stone shields in aluminium SWG.16, bolted in position, to be fitted to both front and rear wings. Doors. Doors to be as thin as possible by using Bentley type locks and Ternstedt door dovetails. The lock jamb to be reinforced by a steel plate SWG.16, to prevent warping due to the weakened section of the door post at the lock. Front door hinged on centre pillar. Rear door on rear pillar, with outside hinges with lubricator. Ferodo type top and bottom stops to all doors. Door check-stops of latest pattern. Interior plate carrying the window lift gear to be of aluminium SWG.12. Rear quarter windows to be hinged. Front and rear doors to have interior handles on lock spindle. All interior handles to be of same pattern. Glass in all doors and quarter windows to be of Triplex Toughened of 3/16ths.ins. thickness. Screen. Fixed screen. Glass Triplex Laminated - 3/16ths.in. thick. | ||
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).