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).
Analysis of a De Dion rear axle and future experimental design work.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 178\2\ img033 | |
| Date | 5th April 1940 | |
| Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}10/ML.5.4.40. I am sending you a copy of OY.7/D.7.3.40. as I think this contains some extremely useful information. We ought to make an analysis of the advantages to be gained from the Dedion rear axle with coil spring suspension as opposed to the conventional rear axle with leaf or coil spring suspension. If there was any big advantage in the Dedion axle we might be tempted to think about it for Myth - Series 2. I will pass on to Green the information with regard to the gauges. The Loft method of setting out a new chassis is the sort of short cut to doing Experimental work that I have dreamt about for a long time. Of course, the work we have been doing since the war is not really experimental work, since the amount of originality indulged in has been almost negligible. However, as we clean up our bread-and-butter jobs we shall want to do some design work and it is then that this big drawing board technique might prove to be advantageous. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||