Departmental memo specifying minimum ground clearances for various chassis types based on flywheel and wheel sizes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\4\ 04-page030 | |
| Date | 3rd May 1912 | |
| ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 813 (Two Lines). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. ground and although the job is not yet quite right Mr Spinney is arranging for alterations to be made so that such will be to drawing. I am now therefore arranging for no further chassis to leave here unless I obtain the following ground clearances which Mr Spinney and I agree are what we should actually get with the following models. Minimum ground clearances for chassis fitted with Dunlop tyres, pumped up to 80 lbs pressure, with flat springs, is, apart from the Silencer snout, is between the undershield ( beading of the guard under the flywheel ) should for chassis commencing 1900 type, until further notice :- ① With large flywheel 895 x 135 wheels 7.5" ② ditto 935 x 135 " 8.3" ③ With small flywheel 895 x 135 " 8.0" ④ ditto 935 x 135 " 8.8" Contd. This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||
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).