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).
Technical note discussing potential improvements in car design including heating, brakes, and weight reduction.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 170\2\ img154 | |
| Date | 17th June 1933 guessed | |
| and the suspension mounted on the body cowl. Allowing for the eventual number of approach shots, the questions to be answered, and the necessity of the change, I should presume that Jan. 1937 would see acceptance. I imagine These cars will have to be properly heated. Barney's forward radiator was a joke as a car heater. Everyone who rode in his car had influenza ✓ Weight saving Engines. We do not approach your figure of 1/2 bhp per cubic inch even with 80 octane fuel. Oil cooling for summer conditions of 110°F seems to hold us back. Hydraulic brakes. with steel drums having c.i. liners. Smaller brakes with more lining more uniformly applied. A steady whittling away of the frame after acceptance of rigid body mount. Then an attack on coachwork weights, seat cushions, weight of doors. Elimination of sheet metal petticoats stuck on as afterthoughts and substitution of an enveloping shell. There seem to be hopeful for weight saving. I think the custom body will survive but will have to contain more welded metal like airplane joints and be built more scientifically to reinforce the vehicle instead of being carried around as lead load. | ||