Secret memo questioning an unauthorized change to the stiffness and friction of rear springs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\3\ scan0076 | |
| Date | 22th July 1924 | |
| COPY. SECRET. To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. BJ7/H22.7.24. E.A.C. R.R. SPRINGING. With reference to R1/M19.7.24, concerning E.A.C. springing, paragraph 5 reads as follows:- "In the car which created the bad impression the rear springs were much stiffer than in your car, but more than this, there has been a change in the springs independent of instructions, in which there appears to be considerably more internal friction, and enormously more than the thick leaf springs which PN. {Mr Northey} favours." Can you please let us know why and by whose instructions the springing was changed? B.J. | ||
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).