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).
Ride control, lead bronze bearings, and the weight of a steel panelled pillarless demonstration saloon.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27a\1\ Scan256 | |
| Date | 16th March 1935 | |
| W/P - Sr. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X4073 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/KW.16.3.35. Many thanks for your Sr.1/Crn.9.3.35. Hancock will be over with 5-B-IV in about a fortnight and he will have the standard poundage of ride control fitted. I have asked him to co-operate with you and find out exactly what you have done and the effect, so that we can take notice of it here and put matters right. Possibly I may come out with him, in which case I shall have first-hand evidence. I think you will certainly want lead bronze bearings in all the cars which are fitted with high compression cylinder heads and Aerolite pistons, because there is no doubt that the additional power does give the big end a trying time. I should like to have details of the weight of your steel panelled pillarless Demonstration Saloon, plus steel wings, and also to know how it is standing up, because I believe we have got to come to this construction sooner or later whether we like it or not. If you weigh the complete car you will have to give me the chassis number because we added about 25 lbs. to the weight of the chassis on 'C' series. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||