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).
Conclusion on the merits of monocoque versus normal construction, weighing road noise against performance.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\2\ scan0344 | |
Date | 30th April 1940 guessed | |
Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} The writers general conclusions is that unless a monocoque can be made to give a degree of freedom from road noise equivalent to that of our existing models, he would prefer to have a style of normal construction such as projected on Pl.20. because it is felt that, silence, smoothness and sweetness are of greater sales value than the last 6% of performance, achieved by the monocoque construction. [Signature: Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}] | ||