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).
Suggesting improvements to bumper bars and spring shackles based on observations at a Motor Show.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\1\ scan0162 | |
| Date | 1st January 1933 | |
| B.Y. Derby. C. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Derby. ~~War~~ London. X435 Pt.8/FM-SX-1-33. At the recent Motor Show here, more than one R.R. owner drew my attention to the neat way in which bumper bars fore and aft are incorporated in the latest "Packard", and expressed a wish that we should do something of the same kind. Several also drew attention to the spring shackles on this make of car, which, instead of being of H section as ours are with the cross bar between the spring eye and the frame bearing, were of an elongated shape having the cross bar in the shape of a third shackle bolt below the spring eye, that is to say, the spring eye was really the middle cross member; by passing the lowest or third bolt through a tubular distance piece, spring shackles of this nature could be made adjustable, a very desirable feature in Australia where attention for side play on our cars is a much too frequent occurrence, as I have already pointed out more than once. Pt. | ||