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).
The fitting, testing, and pricing terms for Houdaille suspensions on various car chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 25\2\ Scan064 | |
| Date | 3rd July 1924 guessed | |
| - 4 - and it has presented no difficulties to the coachbuilder. You would, of course, find it a far cheaper fitting to bolt straight to the chassis frame and doubtless if you standardise you would, similarly to Isotta Fraschini, Minerva, Delage, Delaunay, Enfield Allday, etc., etc., so design your chassis that the fixing on of the Houdailles would only be a matter say of 1 hour per pair. So much for the back. Now as regards the front. We fitted to the above two mentioned cars chassis type Suspensions with 185 m/m (between centres) lever arms cranked, utilising the Rolls Royce ball stud and rod simply reamering out the hole in our lever arm to take the Rolls Royce ball stud. This fitting was, of course, a very simple one. In making your tests we would draw your attention to the fact that our Suspensions are generally a little bit on the stiff side when new but this wears off with about the 100 miles running and therefore at the end of such period final adjustments should be made. Terms. Our price to Makers who fit Houdaille Suspensions as part of the standard equipment of their cars is 6 guineas nett per pair and, therefore, for book keeping purposes we shall be invoicing you this price for the 3 pairs we are now sending and marking the invoice "Sale or return". We need scarcely say that if a visit to your Works by the Writer or some member of our Staff would assist you in any way. | ||