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).
Design of car bodies, advocating against heavy and cramped designs and praising a new Windovers scheme.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5\2\ 02-page023 | |
| Date | 27th October 1925 | |
| To C.J. from R.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to C.J. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to L.H.S.{Lord Herbert Scott - Chair} C. X5830 R3/M27.10.25. RE. BODIES. X.8830 X.5830 I am sometimes misunderstood on the question of bodies. I cannot say that I am a good critic of what ought to be made, but I do think we should use every endeavour to avoid very heavy, and especially top heavy bodies. I do not like cramped bodies for our 40/50, or even for our 20 HP., especially in the matter of width at the front seat, and I do dislike the practice of waste of space and weight, as I have seen many times even lately. I am not blaming RR. for these shortcomings, but I think we ought to use our influence to keep them as near right as possible. Windovers have fitted to the India a simple scheme of running-board tool box, light, inexpensive, and efficient, and vastly different to some I complained of some months ago which were heavy, and putrid with fungus. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||