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).
Note on how to handle a complaint of slipping under abnormal driving conditions during an experimental test.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 129\4\ scan0124 | |
Date | 8th January 1938 | |
-3- Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}8/JH.8.1.38. If it is demonstrated that a reasonably quick pick up at say 30 m.p.h. can be obtained as in the first part of the experimental test a complaint of slipping under abnormal conditions which should never exist, even in the hands of a bad driver, should be turned down. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler} | ||