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).
Complaints about over-heating in the rear of Phantom cars and the urgency to find a solution.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 74\3\ scan0199 | |
| Date | 11th May 1927 | |
| S/W Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Over-heating in Rear Part of Phantom Cars. ----- It is rather urgent that we should have some method of over-coming these complaints when we get them. Now that the warm weather has commenced we are expecting complaints - we have already had one. We, of course, do all possibly by making Coachbuilders fit the floor boards, heel boards, etc. close and by fitting asbestos and Sorbo mats, but these are not altogether a cure, one difficulty being that if the boards are very tight in the Summer they get so tight in the Winter that there is great difficulty in getting them out. Could you please tell me when you think your scheme will be ready for application to cars in connection with which we get a complaint. C. | ||