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).
Report page analyzing a car's weight, safety, engine appendages, and body construction.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 39\2\ Scan229 | |
| Date | 22th June 1926 guessed | |
| contd :- -4- be much more than 23 cwts. as bumpers were fitted fore and aft to the closed car we weighed. It would seem that we might procure useful XXX information as to how exactly they do obtain these remarkably low chassis weights if we bought one of these cars. We could also, by test, see if they sacrificed their factor of safety in obtaining these weights. A bump test should quickly prove the front axle design. The engine has the usual host of American appendages, filters, air cleaners, oil purifiers etc. The body appeared to be largely metal, single-piece front screen, mechanical lifts to all windows. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||