Proposal to test the weight-carrying limits of an armoured car chassis on a steep gradient.
| Identifier | Morton\M1.6\ img005 | |
| Date | 1st September 1921 | |
| To HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R. {Sir Henry Royce} Copy to CJ. ORIGINAL. RE ARMOURED CAR TEST.X4195 I think it would be a good thing if you took one of our standard chassis where there is a short steep hill and make tests of a known gradient of 1 in 5, where it is quite safe in case the load is too much for the power or brakes, and load up the chassis a few cwts. at a time, and find out the limit of weight that the brake will pull up on this grade from a slow speed, and see with what load the low gear, the clutch and the engine are capable of starting on such a grade. R. {Sir Henry Royce} | ||
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).