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).
Special 'Paxon' air bag rear cushion for a Park Ward body on a 25-EX chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 132\3\ scan0214 | |
| Date | 11th February 1931 | |
| HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} XU524 DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}3/M11.2.31. PARK WARD BODY ON 25-EX. XU524 In reply to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/LID{A. J. Lidsey}4/KT9231., we remember that this car has a rear cushion of a special "Paxon" air bag covered with curled hair and down. It was fitted to the car at the request of OY. and SRN. who preferred that type of cushion. We do not agree to your suggestion of raising the seat but we think that Park Ward would make us a spring cushion the compressed height of which would be no higher than that of the air cushion. The writer regrets that he cannot give any attention to this matter and we must leave it entirely to you in future to deal with experimental bodies, but no doubt if you take the car down to P.W. and leave it with them for about a week they will be able to make you a cushion. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||