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).
Independent springing systems, comparing existing designs and proposing a new, improved scheme.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\2\ img013 | |
| Date | 29th January 1934 | |
| INDEPENDENT SPRINGING. All the forms of control for the wheels of the above type of springing which I have seen, with the exception of the "Lancia Lambda", have a serious disability inasmuch as either the wheel scrubs the road laterally under spring movement or as in the Mercedes Benz where this is avoided, it is at the expense of setting up a gyroscopic torque which was the greatest disability in the orthodox type of springing and axle control. In the schemes attached, for which I have taken out a provisional, the wheel rises and falls in the one vertical plane or in other words the designs eliminate side scrubbing and wheel tilt under any extent of spring movement. I believe the schemes to be both novel and patentable as well as practicable, and should prove to be an advance on either our own scheme of independent springing or that of the Mercedes Benz used by General Motors. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||