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).
Secret memo discussing the special features required for a Barker Allweather body on a New Phantom chassis for Mr. Royce.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\2\ scan0098 | |
| Date | 27th June 1925 | |
| 48992 to C---- from EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} copy to F.J. (HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}) SECRET E A G II . RE BARKER ALLWEATHER FOR MR. ROYCE . We thank you for your C/HNS/DB{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}26-6-1925. re the above. The only features which we intended fitting to this New PhantomCodename for PHANTOM I chassis were those essential to the sub-frame and the coachwork. they are as follows :- (1) Wider and higher dash which is essential to the subframe and has already been seen by the coachbuilders. (2) Sub-frame and fittings to chassis. (3) Special sub-frame side levers. remarks as in (1). (4) Special Instrument Board with framed instruments. This design was suggested to us by the coach-builders themselves. (5) Sheet metal wing-stays. These we need to fit in order that they may be included in the wings. All the other features are either not visible being either inside the engine, gear-box or axle, or else they can be left off until the chassis returns to the works with the body fitted. We cannot make the body with the wings and valences incorporating the above mentioned features in which Mr Royce is particularly interested without sending a chassis. We considered that the few special fittings we were proposing to add were not novel to the coachbuilder and would not cause any comment by them any more than the fitting of a Maxweal Tyre pump or petrol tank with reserve compartment at a customer's request would cause them to believe that we contemplated the standardisation of such features in the near future. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} will bein London next week when he will arrange to see you . | ||