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).
Suitability of fitting Houdaïlle Shock Absorbers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 25\2\ Scan025 | |
| Date | 17th June 1914 | |
| ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: 'ROYCAR,' DERBY. TELEPHONES: 476 (FOUR LINES). Re Houdaïlle Shock Absorbers. X.1152 [Initialed Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer}] 17-6-14 A customer - E.H.Broadhurst - wrote sometime ago asking us as to the advisability of fitting Houdaïlle Shock Absorbers to his car. We informed him that we were experimenting with a set and would let him know the result. We should like to know whether you are now in a position to pass an opinion on the advisability of fitting these Shock Absorbers. on a Rolls-Royce car. p. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} [Initialed Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}] 17.6.14. The experiments are still in progress but I think we can say that we do not think it worth while fitting them. they add a lot of weight and do not appear to improve the riding at ordinary low speeds up to about 20 miles per hour in fact I am of the opinion that they have a detrimental effect at these slow speeds except on an exceedingly bad wavy road such as one never comes across unless travelling in very out of the way places. They accentuate the (over) This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||