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).
Report from Nairobi on vehicle damage including suspension, tyres, and undercarriage.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\4\ scan0085 | |
Date | 17th March 1934 guessed | |
CABLES: "JET" NAIROBI. TELEPHONE 2419. TORR'S HOTEL LTD. DIRECTORS :- MAJOR EWART SCOTT GROGAN, D.S.O. ERNEST BEASLEY GILL, A.C.A. PERCY WHEELOCK, A.C.A. RICHARD ARNOTT, F.C.R.A. P. O.{Mr Oldham} BOX 419, NAIROBI. "knuckle-joints" of the front suspension system to become very sloppy, which doesn't in any case help the steering to maintain its efficiency. As you know tyres have been bursting like balloons, and each bang causes clouds of birds + animals to rush in all directions. The supply pipe to the rear permanent jacks has been swept away by rocks and things, and the underneath of the petrol tank looks like the back-board of a shooting range. No leaks have yet appeared. We now have a wonderful "knock-knee" frontal appearance, the springs have already taken a set, so I am putting in washers to rectify it. | ||