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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).
Testing of shock absorbers and their effectiveness in alleviating wobbles.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 29\1\  Scan084
Date  28th September 1925 guessed
  
MADE AT CROXLEY

contd :- -2-

getting in the system.

We are reducing the severity of the test as we consider that it is over-strenuous owing to the fact that the shock absorbers have no possible chance of being cooled; on the road they would be continually exposed to convectional currents.

At the moment it does not look as if there is much chance of any of the three types in question proving a reliable means of alleviating wobbles.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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