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).
Benefits of torsional rigidity for car control and the undesirability of reverting to a flexible frame.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\5\ Scan056 | |
| Date | 10th January 1929 guessed | |
| contd :- -2- We feel convinced that it would be very undesirable to consider removing the cross and going back to our flexible frame now that we have appreciated the advantages which torsional rigidity gives us with regard to car control. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||