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).
Test report on the effects of a filled-in dashboard on vehicle temperatures and smells.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\4\ scan0153 | |
| Date | 2nd January 1919 | |
| 7. Dashboard filled in, louvred side guards, dashboard ventilators above floorboards closed, ventilators under floorboards taken right out, front two side windows open only. Floorboard temperature: 33, 38 Body temperature: 23, 35 Water temperature: 70, boil Time under full power: 9 1/2 mins. Air temperature: 15, 15 No smell, no draught. General summary :- The filling in of the dashboard certainly increases the tendency of the water to boil as compared with the dashboard open and also the side louvres fitted. Floorboard temperatures are generally lowered as also is the temperature inside the body. Tests still show however that the effect of forming a pressure inside the body reduces the temperature inside the body considerably. Test also shows that there is no report of any objectionable smell inside the body, it being considerably less objectionable still than when the dashboard is not filled in. There is however, a tendency for air to be drawn into the body shown by the fact that when the footbrake is used excessively burnt oil smell which comes from the brake can be smelled inside the body as in previous tests. E.P. | ||