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).
The feasibility of designing a lightweight Sports body, contrasting it with an older experimental body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\1\ scan0318 | |
| Date | 9th September 1927 | |
| X8830 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. Copy to DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} 10-EX. BJ17/E12/9/27 With reference to EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}3/8/9/27, the Sales officials appear to have little doubt that a Sports body can easily be designed and made weighing about 7 cwt. It will of course be remembered that the body which is on 10-EX for experimental purposes is a mongrel crossbreed which was built originally about three years ago for a special purpose and never used, at a time when coachbuilders were not particularly considering weights as they are now, and to this body was added a large wheel carrier at the back, and altogether the body can by no means be taken as a sample of what coachbuilders can do today. BJ. | ||