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).
High cost of road springs and proposing comparative testing against Packard and Austin springs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154a\4\ scan0054 | |
| Date | 19th January 1938 | |
| S/W {Sales / Derby Works} To EH. from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Road Springs. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 14/E19.1.38 Referring to your EY.5/G.10.1.38, whilst noting all that you say, I still do not understand why our springs should have to be so expensive. I am sure that other firms, whose springs do not break, do not pay anything like these prices for them. I believe we once took a Packard spring to pieces off our car but I have forgotten what the result was. I think we can say that Packard springs do notbreak. If we have not taken one of these to examine it, I suggest we should do so and that we should also submit it to exactly the same tests as those to which we submit our springs that break. Take also Austin's, I cannot imagine that they pay anything like the prices indicated. If we have not already done so, I suggest we should take an Austin spring to pieces and submit it to the same tests. We can easily get an Austin spring as a spare for our Transport cars. I should like to hear the results. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||