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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).
Strategy for building a car body for a new 'Super Sports' chassis test.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 12\3\  X704-0085
Date  13th February 1928
  
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BJ. from C.

CL/C13.2.28.

Re: Super Sports - EAC.10.
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Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} and I have discussed this this afternoon and we think it opens up a very big question.

In the first place, we think that if only one chassis is to be built only one body need be built, and not three as previously suggested.

This particular chassis is the chassis that is being produced for our future standard model, therefore, we should think the testing of it ought to be carried out with one of the types of body that we sell to our particular class of customer.

The body that Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} recommends is a very special method of manufacture which would be perfectly all right if we were builders of our own coachwork but we have to bear in mind the whole time that our chassis are sent all over the World, and all the best Coachbuilders in the World build bodies for them, and it is impossible for us to ask all these Coachbuilders to drop all their preconceived methods of building bodies and adopt the Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} scheme.

Also it should be borne in mind that our best Agents are themselves leading Coachbuilders and we depend upon them for a very large proportion of our sales.
This not only applies to England, but abroad.

Therefore, we feel that if the testing of this chassis is carried out with a specially constructed body we shall not have attained the desired result, and probably shall have wasted both time and money. So that although we should be glad to have Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}'s help as far as possible in building his body and are quite willing to use a sub-frame for camouflage purposes so as not to disclose the real purpose, we feel the body ought to be built on orthodox lines, as will eventually be fitted to the chassis.

If it is desired to do some intensive testing with this chassis in order to produce troubles quickly by aid of speed and acceleration it might be worth having a body of the Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} special-construction type made for it so long as it is perfectly clear that the orthodox coachbuilders type of body will be fitted before the normal 10,000 miles test is commenced; but this would mean the expense of two bodies, which is a fairly substantial item.
  
  


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