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).
Letter from Dashwood & Partners Ltd. proposing an anti-skid and stabilising device for heavy vehicles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 15\6\ Scan143 | |
| Date | 3rd December 1931 | |
| COPY. Dashwood & Partners Ltd. 27, Grosvenor Place, London. S.W.1. December 3rd 1931 A.F.Sidgreaves Esq. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd. 14 Conduit Street. W.1. Dear Sir, The undersigned is indebted to Captain L.Charley for your name in connection with a car device which we are taking up and which we think you will at least be interested in hearing about. Briefly the device is for stabilising heavy vehicles and by so doing obviating about 90% of the causes of skidding. The matter is past an experimental stage and is already extensively adopted in Germany. The device is what might be described as a combination of laz-tongs and shock absorber that fits behind the rear axle and enables the ordinary springing of the vehicle to be xxxxx greatly improved whilst the shock absorber is probably the most efficent extant. We have a little diffidence in approaching you with anything of an "anti-skid" nature as we are sure you have been bothered with hundreds of different gadgets - but we have this apparatus fitted to a Wolseley saloon that was a bad roller and the easiest way to appreciate whether there is anything in the device to interest you as we feel sure it will would be for you to see the apparatus in action and at the same time hear abit of detailed explanation that would save a lot of time. One can do the most spectacular things with this car in perfect safety and whereas before passengers in the back seat not infrequently had to alight for "sea sickness" on a long run and were also considerably bumped about, it is possible now to sit quietly at corners without sliding into each others laps. | ||