Required component upgrades including water pump, clutch, and suspension for a trial.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 56\2\ Scan012 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1932 guessed | |
| 3 To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from G.W.H. The latest water pump would be needed to prevent loss of water at high speed. The clutch is given very severe work and with the exact honest gears I think it would fail with the present design. Springing The 25 springing is hopeless for this test. We must have Hartford shock dampers or other of the same pattern. The springs would want to be twice as strong. The riding of the car in England would be called impossible to be made right for this trial. I have had to tighten up the Hartfords as hard as I could possibly get them for the car to hold the | ||
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).