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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 design and challenges of boot lid and spare wheel mounting schemes.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 118\1\  scan0188
Date  2nd April 1940
  
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Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/JH.

2nd. April, 1940.

Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}

(1) Every time the boot lid{A. J. Lidsey} is opened and closed the weight of the wheel has to be lifted.

(2) The boot panel is a difficult pressing.

(3) Unless one adopts as standard the peculiar square boot such as the Rover Company have adopted, the appearance of the side view is not acceptable.

(4) luggage on the boot lid{A. J. Lidsey} has to be removed to give acces to the wheel.

(5) A complete bumper bar appears to be ruled out and the number plate is in a vulnerable position.

In view of the above objection we have made a study of the alternative scheme mounting the spare wheel under the luggage boot and above the petrol tank. This is shown on PL.155 and is a scheme which is becoming increasingly more popular on small cars for besides the Jaguar it is to be found on the Standard, Austin and Daimler models.

It will be seen that either scheme provides the luggage boot of the same capacity, but this latter scheme has the difficulty that it makes the luggage boot access very easy and the access to the spare wheel the more difficult. This seems right since the access to the wheel is the more infrequent requirement.

Normally one would remove the spare wheel with the boot lid{A. J. Lidsey} closed, but with great difficulty would it be possible to extract the spare wheel when the luggage boot lid{A. J. Lidsey} was loaded.

We have decided that we prefer this latter scheme and propose to try it on the body for the Rippletto.

Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}
  
  


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