Proposal for Hoopers to supply two experimental car bodies and designing fixed head cabriolets on subframes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5\2\ 02-page052 | |
| Date | 1st July 1926 | |
| To B.J. from R. {Sir Henry Royce} c. to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to DA {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} /EV. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} X5830 RL/1623. 7. 26. BODIES. X.7830 X.5830 I understand that Hoopers will bear 50% of the cost of two bodies for our next experimental cars - i.e. 20 HP. and a 40/50 HP. If so, while in the humour, I should buy. We xpng propose fixed head cabriolets on subframes for the next 20 HP. for France, and for EAC-7. Being on subframes we can avoid sending these secret chassis to the coachbuilders, as the improvements would, in the case of EAC.7., be manifest changes, and we are hoping for marked improvements in this chassis. We feel this is urgent as we have no cars as near perfection as these bodies should be from an owner drivers point of view - i.e. to take full advantage of recent improvements to D. {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} steering, and low seats, which will allow low roof. At the moment of writing we are waiting for Sales decision regarding where to buy. R. {Sir Henry Royce} | ||
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).