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).
Engine heat issues in the front footwells and proposing solutions like insulated foot boxes and isolating the engine chamber.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 182\M21\ img032 | |
| Date | 19th September 1922 guessed | |
| Etablissements Poulard Aine & Poulard Jeune France Mont-Saint-Michel COMPAGNIE HOTELIERE DES CENTRES DE TOURISME AUTOMOBILE 1 F.H.R. People will have high side doors to front seats. If they do not have cocoa nut matting on the floor, occupants of front seats suffer very badly from Engine heat in hot or even warm weather. It seems to me that we might fit complete foot boxes to all chassis & that these might be 2 made hollow of two sets of three-ply boards with an space between. Also this heat question should be considered in design of new Engine, Could not engine Chamber be entirely isolated from rest of chassis. The fact is we have not overcome the heat difficulty. I am instructing Sales to give me a return of | ||