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).
Magazine clipping describing the Crossley Works' Test Body used for chassis testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 74\4\ scan0138 | |
| Date | 14th August 1912 | |
| Handwritten note: F.H. Royce. Have for many years used a box for test. Rags of Jute from turnings; machines was up scrap and dead weight. with the fundamental usefulness. Levassor. Printed text: THE MOTOR August 14, 1912 Some Recent Spec… A Crossley Works' Test Body. Fig. 1, the photo from which the accompanying illustration has been prepared, came to hand too late to be included in the reference to it in last number, shows the simple, effective, and easily handled type of test body devised for testing the standard Crossley chassis. Mr. Woods, the sales' manager for Crossley Motors, Ltd., explained to us that in common with other makers of chassis, his company heretofore used a box weighted with iron blocks, but replaced it because of the rattle and noise which interfered with the tester's hearing and discerning the small sounds from the chassis. The box is filled with damp sand to a weight corresponding with that of a loaded body of the type selected; hence the chassis is run under conditions more or less akin to those that will be normal when in the hands of the owner, which also enables the set of the springs to be gauged as well as the speed, hill-climbing, and acceleration, and braking powers of the chassis to be tested adequately. Besides being easily shipped and unshipped because of the lifting straps attached to the box, space is purposely provided at the back of the seat to facilitate the tester hearing and noting the working of the rear half of the transmission gear, including the joints of the fore and aft driving shaft. Image caption: 1.—A Crossley Works Test Body. Text on vehicle license plate: H205 | ||