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 fitting issues and suggested modifications sent to Park Ward & Co., Ltd.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 12\6\ 06-page109 | |
| Date | 24th August 1934 | |
| - 2 - Messrs. Park Ward & Co., Ltd. 24/8/34. difficulty arises. (3) The pawl push rod guide on the base of the brake lever fouled the bottomside of the body and had to be filed away. We suggest you will shew this in future on the full-sized drawing. (4) As already reported to you, the second body bolts from the dash could not be got into position without removing the whole of the extra seats and the trimming behind the division. When this was done and the bolt holes were drilled the bolts themselves could not be entered without removing the chain gear operating the dropping division. In future with experimental bodies having a division, we suggest that you have a hand-hole in the casing board and that the trimming over this hand-hole be a loose piece held on by screws. (5) The front rail of the front seat was placed several inches farther back than shewn on our BVS121, and in consequence it passed over the servo and had to be cut away to clear it. Had it been farther forward the servo would have come in the space under the front seat, and only the board would have had to be cut out to clear the servo. (6) The wooden rail at the back of the front cushion and on the front edge of the metal well for the feet of the passengers of the extra seats was below the limiting level and fouled the flange on the top edge of the chassis frame. (7) The feet which are attached to the sheet metal wheel arches (two each side of the body) were not the same height relative to the under-side edge of the arch on each side of the car. (8) The rear heelboard had not been cut out to clear the exhaust swan-neck, or the sheet metal brackets supporting the shock absorbers. We suggest that you will wish to put the swaneck and the sheet metal shock absorber brackets on the full-sized drawing. In future we suggest that you use the design of sheet metal heelboard shewn on our drawing, when these troubles will not occur. (9) The plywood valance at the bottom of the rear doors fouled the top of the rear step iron and had to be cut away. We think this will -2- | ||