The trade-offs between using use-less bushes for springs versus retaining the central oiling system.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5a\1\ 01-page184 | |
| Date | 23th July 1931 guessed | |
| -2- weight of the engine to fit frame dampers in addition to the ordinary hydraulic axle dampers. For the low cost we ought to use-less bushes for the springs, but then we should be cutting out our spring leaf oiling, in fact the whole of the central oiling, and I fear this would be losing a valuable RR. feature which would help to demand our extra price, (but this oiling sch. costs much in fitters' time.) R. {Sir Henry Royce} | ||
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).