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).
Typed note discussing the undesirability of a proposed damper for various car models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 104\4\ scan0137 | |
| Date | 5th May 1932 guessed | |
| -2- Has anything happened to alter the prop: shaft or couplings or spoil the alignment. One imagines we have not altered the inertia of the pistons or the flywheel, so the percentage varation of turning is the same. The importance of this will be reaslised when we consider that such a heavy costly and undesirable fitting as this proposed damper would have to go on P.2., J.3., Per: Bensport - i.e. all our models - terrible. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||