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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).
Focus on suspension and back axle development over acquiring a competitor's vehicle.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 23\3\  Scan005
Date  17th May 1911
  
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I do not see any point that we could gain by getting hold of a Panhard and we have at present such an enormous amount of work in hand to apply the knowledge that we have acquired, and I am inclined to agree with some of your previous statements that it is enormously important that the suspension and silence of the back axle should be our principal and first study, as, when riding in the car where the passengers usually are, these two points are of the utmost importance.

With regard to the Minerva Knight, some statement was made a little while ago by Fergusons, I think, that the Minerva back axles were much noisier than ours and someone elses, and I think this can be largely accounted
  
  


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