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The development challenges of applying an independently sprung wheel system to a high-speed car.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 14\5\  Scan141
Date  4th November 1929
  
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rml/AM.4.11.29 contd.

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to be obtained from independently sprung wheels, and we are sure that if Mr.Farnsworth tried one of our Phantom II cars such as 18-EX he would agree that years of development would be required before his system could attain such perfection. In addition many troubles might arise in applying such a system to a car capable of doing 80 M.P.H. with a big closed body.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rn. {Mr Robinson}
  
  
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).


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