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).
Standardisation of oil hydraulic shock dampers and the consequential arrangements with Dunlop Co. for wheel supply.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\1\ Scan045 | |
| Date | 15th March 1926 | |
| X.3809 Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} BY8/H 15.3.26. OIL HYDRAULIC SHOCK DAMPERS. X.235 I am not wanting to worry you unnecessarily on the above matter, but I would just like to remind you that as soon as you see a way through with the shock damper, and are likely to standardise it, I would like to be warned that this is the case, as the question of getting wheels with weel base rims is dependent, so far as I can see at the moment, now only upon the new shock damper materialising for production. The Dunlop Co. tell us definitely that they can change over from one type of wheel to the other in approx. one month from the date we pass on the information, but of course they will have a number of wheels going through their Works, which we should have to take delivery of or come to some arrangement with them about, from the point of view of compensating them. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||