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).
Design notes on vehicle dimensions, layout, and styling, with comparisons to American models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 170\3\ img186 | |
| Date | 6th June 1939 guessed | |
| -2- r Width. 3 piece front seat requires 60" cushion and 65" - 66" for outside width at widest part. With 60" track overall width should not exceed 72". This is too much for English roads. A 53" track with 65" overall is ever so much better. One can still get frontal balance and a 63" body with 58" seat. Length. Passengers between axles. Engine squeezed in ahead. 5" engine slope. Looped drive line. Equal angle U.Joints. G.B. extensions. Trunk compartment Aligator hood and catwalks. Headlamps. No starting handle. Styling. American designers can afford to mould public acceptance without sudden jerks. Zephyr and Buick front designed in 1933. Difficult for R.R. but first steps should be taken. The devlopment from the tetrahedron is definite simplicity in line and is coming. I wrote notes on this in 1933. Wheel positions should be dominated by first principles. American 28" overhang in front and 45" at rear is too great. _________ ✓EJ | ||