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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).
Expected reaction to the removal of springs from a slipper-wheel on trials car GAU-7.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 107\1\  scan0162
Date  1st December 1932
  
87960
S/W.
from P.N.
Copy to
Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Whr{Mr Wheeler}
Trials Car GAU-7.
PN.{Mr Northey}3/WT1.12.32.
Thank you for your further No.3/T30.11.32.
I was anxious to have your specific reply on this point because I had rather expected that your reaction to Paris having removed half of the number of the springs in the slipper-wheel would have been one of considerable shock and disapproval.
P.N.
  
  


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