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Cause of 'booming bodies' in cars, attributing the issue to coachbuilders.


Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\T\March1929-December1929\  Scan047
Date  25th March 1929
  
ORIGINAL
FROM R. {Sir Henry Royce}
(At Le Canadel(Henry Royce's French residence).)
R7/M25.3.29.
REC'D AT WW. 28.3.29.
[Text Struck Through: C. to ENG. WCR.]
[Text Struck Through: BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ]
BOOMING BODIES.
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It is now generally considered that a booming body is a coachbuilder's problem, that is, they must not, and need not, build booming bodies, because road vibrations, and any small vibration even transmitted by the air will cause them to boom. Most of them soon get better by running - i.e. lose their drum like tightness.
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).


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