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).
Extract discussing issues with P.2 bonnets, including scuttle gap uniformity and louvred panel construction.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 12\7\ 07-page110 | |
| Date | 15th July 1930 | |
| EXTRACT FROM :- X.7260. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/M15.7.30. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to C. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} c. to EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} JBE. X.7770. X.5770. (8) P.2. BONNET In view of the difficulty of keeping the scuttle isolation gap uniform when the bodies are built and completed before mounting the bonnet carried over the dash as fitted to 25-EX. would be a great assistance, and we are therefore anxious to test and standardise this feature as soon as possible. (9) P.2. LOUVRED BONNETS We have already written to you about the soft metal and the arrangement of the stiffeners in the bonnets of P.2. We would be glad if you would tell us the difficulties in connection with making louvred bonnets, as we think it is serious to go on delivering such bonnets as they are now made. You will have seen 12-XJ, which shews what a car is like after it has been on the road, but many bonnets are badly bent and distorted before they leave the coachbuilders. Is it the double louvre that is the trouble? If we could know the difficulties we might be able to modify the design. Could you send us a blue print of the arrangement of the louvred bonnet? We are not quite sure whether we have one. | ||