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 to W. Rowbotham discussing design difficulties with independent front springing and performance of a new streamlined model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\3\ scan0117 | |
| Date | 3rd December 1937 | |
| Telephone: Barlaston 51. 1380 The Manor House, Tittensor, Stoke-on-Trent. Friday, 3rd December, 1937. NHR/W. Dear Bill, Your letter made me very depressed when I read it, but I suppose I ought not to have expected anything else. I appreciate that the difficulties of designing independent front springing must be very great, and that you will give it to us as soon as you can - my hopes were running in other directions as well, but they are now dashed to the ground. I quite agree with all you say about speeds over 100 m.p.h. The figures you give for the streamlined model are very interesting, and indicate that the performance would be extremely good in the ranges which are in common use. If I had known that you had sold one of these things, I should not have made the offer to buy one - I would much rather wait until some of the initial stages are "ironed out". In the meantime I will continue to average 3 m.p.h. in the fog - waiting till the sunshine comes - hoping that it will not be long and that by then you will have some definite proposals to make. Yours sincerely, Neville W.Rowbotham, Esq., Rolls-Royce, Limited, Derby. | ||