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 detailing how a car's noise issue was significantly reduced by tightening the back wheels.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\4\ scan0304 | |
| Date | 8th April 1938 | |
| 261. Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. 5 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS CONCENTRATION, SOWEST, LONDON. Manufacturers of Accumulators for over 50 years. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON, S.W.1. YOUR REF_______ OUR REF M/5. 8th April, 1938. W.A. Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}, Thanks for yours of the 6th instant, but I have a very humiliating confession to make which may cause you to smile but I must tell the truth! The car was so bad that in desperation I tried tightening the back wheels. They went up barely a quarter of a turn but 75% of the noise has gone and what remains at the moment does not seem to me to justify laying the car up and causing you the expense and trouble of doing the work just now. It is incredible to me that so small an alteration could have such a big effect, is there nothing that you can do to the design to prevent such a serious sympton arising from such a trifling cause? It makes one wonder whether the Rolls-Royce type of wheel is better. If I have to return to the subject later I will let you know but for the moment I do not feel justified in further troubling you. Yours sincerely, G.R.N. Minchin Going down to lunch with W O B on Wednesday to try the 12 cyl. | ||