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).
Car riding quality, discussing issues with dampers, shocks, and steering performance.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 55\4\ Scan365 | |
| Date | 1st May 1929 guessed | |
| contd :- -2- and no dampers is that the car is riding at times hard and produces small shocks throughout the car, certainly felt more in the front seats than in the rear. With tyres that are worn these shocks and the general riding of the car are increased considerably, so much so that a customer would have a right to say the riding was hard. This is not due to stiffness of road springs, the car floats up and down with any unevenness of the road surface. We have come to the conclusion that to have dynamic restriction in the rear dampers is wrong and we have proved its value is not beneficial for high speed work. We have tried the steering again with the front shock dampers set to 70 lbs. up and 65 lbs. down and no restrictions. The results are 50% increase in joggles 25% increase in shocks, jellying period much worse. We are satisfied that the best compromise for the front is 60 lbs. L. and 60 lbs. H.P. with the restrictions. G.W.H. | ||