Proposed modifications to the car body, dash, and sub-frame.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154\3\ scan0124 | |
| Date | 19th October 1925 | |
| -2- .Oy9-E-101925 October 19th, 1925. Our body shells are ordered at least a year before delivery so you see it is not too early to make very certain about our program. Modification: With our central control don't you think we could do away with the widening of the dash entirely and bend in the front ends of the sub-frame over the main frame? We should prefer to do this because the lack of a dead-flush line along the side of our cars (contrasted with the Packard 8 for example) is considered a fine feature of our lines. Our left-hand bodies are very much narrower in front than the right-hand used to be so that the lines of the cars are finer than the right-hand cars can be with the levers overhanging the frame. We would like to keep the present width of dash and lift the radiator and dash only. Yours very truly, Maurice Olley. MO/E | ||
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).