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).
Letter to Park Ward & Co. regarding rubber mounting for a Trials Enclosed Limousine body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\1\ scan0213 | |
| Date | 31th December 1935 | |
| Copy to Mr. [redacted] Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X 304 WYMAN Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} noted [Signature] E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/MN. 31st. December, 1935. Messrs. Park Ward & Co., 473, High Road, Willesden, London, N.W.10. Dear Sirs, Re Rubber Mounting for Body on Trials Enclosed Limousine 34-EX. You will recollect that prior to the Christmas vacation we spoke to you on the telephone concerning the rubber mounting of the enclosed limousine body of the Trials Car 34-EX, and it was agreed that you would obtain suitable bolts in readiness, whilst we would produce the scheme and obtain the necessary rubbers. It was hoped that we should be able to let you have this car before now, but this has not been possible. Mr. Honeyman will inform you when the car is available, which will be at any moment. We send herewith a print of LeC.4849 showing the proposed scheme, and also enclose herewith the necessary rubber slabs and rubber dumb bells. We have ascertained from Messrs. Sanderson & Holmes that the thinnest packing used on this body is 1/4" and that the thickest is 1 1/2". We have therefore shown 1/2" slabs of rubber on all the horizontal body brackets. The extra thickness where the present packing is greater than 1/2" can be obtained by shims of sheet aluminium. As a precaution and for fear a packing less than 1/2" does occur on remounting we are sending you together with the 1/2" rubbers a set of 1/4" and 1/8" rubbers. The body is held down on each bracket by a bolt or set screw as the case may be which, although fitting in the body, has a large clearance hole in the centre of the body bracket. | ||