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).
Test drive report complaining about the steering and stability of Chassis 20-EX.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 17\3\ Scan389 | |
| Date | 10th February 1930 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Hm.{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} x) 430. Hm{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs}15/W10.2.30. Re Chassis 20-EX. I ran this Car about 320 miles over the week-end, and I do not like the Steering at all. Its worst feature is the absence of stability at high speed. At speeds over 60 miles an hour, it was very difficult indeed to steer. The Car wandered so much that it took me all my time to hold on to the wheel in an endeavour to keep the Car straight. In overtaking another Car, at about 50 miles an hour, as soon as the Car got on the wrong camber of the road, the tendency was for it to go right off the road. I don't know what experimental part you may have on the steering of this Car, but I do hope that it is not standard. It is altogether different to my recollection of other Phantom Cars, and by the time I had finished driving it made my shoulders ache. Hm.{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} | ||