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).
With a diagram analyzing issues with Daimler car body mountings, focusing on noise and breakage.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 74\1\ scan0078 | |
| Date | 25th August 1925 guessed | |
| (3) I gathered from Barkers, Hoopers & Thrupp & Mabberley, that the Daimler method of supporting body is not satisfactory & that Daimler bodies are noisy. Daimler. A=hinge. B=dowel pin sliding up & down in plate on frame. C=hard rubber block. The dowel B rattles & squeaks, the relative movement of body & frame is 1/2" here. The rattle & squeak of B has been so objectionable that coachmakers have occasionally threaded B & fitted nuts, the result of this treatment has been that the body has broken about D.D. Net result of interviews is that coachmakers consider that the bending & whipping of door pillars combined with flexible roofs causes door rattles. The fitting of two dovetail dowel plates makes matters worse, one perfectly fitting or one | ||