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).
Letter to Houdaille Hydraulic Suspension Co. Ltd. declining to test their shock absorbers for standardisation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 25\2\ Scan088 | |
| Date | 27th February 1924 | |
| Copy of Letter. Ref: ROY{Sir Henry Royce}4/MG27.2.24. Your Ref: C.D/D.S February 27th.1924. Messrs. The Houdaille Hydraulic Suspension Co.Ltd. 41, New Bond Street, LONDON W.1 Dear Sirs:- Houdaille Shock Absorbers ------------------------- We thank you for your letter of the 21st instant re above, and have perused with interest the testimonials you have received from various Rolls owners to whose cars such Absorbers have been fitted. The matter has been discussed fully in various quarters at the Works here, and, whilst fully appreciating all these gentlemen say, we have come to the conclusion that no useful purpose would be served at this juncture by submitting your Absorbers to the exhaustive tests necessary before we could consider their standardisation in lieu of those we are at present fitting - especially as the pressure in our Research and Experimental Departments at the moment is extremely great. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS ROYCE LTD. Buyer. ENCLOSURE No 73 JUSTSO | ||