Proposal to test a stiffened sub-frame to understand and overcome the 'jellying' phenomenon in a chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\5\ Scan087 | |
| Date | 6th July 1932 | |
| X457. H10. From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les.6/MA.6.7.32. JELLYING P.2. V7380. A bare chassis does not jelly. We think jellying is caused from the rigidity of the body. We should like a sub frame which is immensely ridged torsionally between the 4 sub-frame brackets. We suggest stiffeners in the form of a cross, the arms of which fasten to the sub-frame above the sub-frame brackets. We are hoping that such a sub-frame will cause a bare chassis to jelly. This would account for the large variation in the degree of jellying on a complete car, and would enable us to do some tests on subframe mounting in order to overcome jellying. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /I.A.Leslie. | ||
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