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).
Proposing to secretly fit a set of lightened thick leaf road springs to a customer's car for testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\2\ scan0135 | |
| Date | 7th November 1935 | |
| To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} x260 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}11/KW.7.11.35. When Lp{Mr Lappin}'s car next comes in we are proposing to fit a set of thick leaf road springs of the lightened type, without telling him anything about it. Will you please give these springs a Code Number and refer to them like this, so that he will not hear about the change. We will adjust the damper loads to give the best ride afterwards, and await his comments. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} | ||