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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).
Instructions regarding the characteristic curve of rear road springs and their potential shock-damping effect.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 79\3\  scan0170
Date  9th September 1913
  
R.R. 300 (6 B) (XX. 368. 9.9.13) E.P. 4920.
15124
ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED.
INSTRUCTIONS.
13 Rod / 1913
To: Mr Royce
Order No.
Customer's No.
Re: X910 CHARACTERISTIC CURVE OF REAR ROAD SPRINGS
Herewith I send a set of curves, plotted from Experimental Dept's figures. After a certain point the rate per inch seems to rise with increasingly negative camber, especially with standard springs.
This may have a shock-damping effect?
Signed: Woary
This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work.
  
  


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