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).
The development challenges of applying an independently sprung wheel system to a high-speed car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\5\ Scan141 | |
| Date | 4th November 1929 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rml/AM.4.11.29 contd. -2- to be obtained from independently sprung wheels, and we are sure that if Mr.Farnsworth tried one of our Phantom II cars such as 18-EX he would agree that years of development would be required before his system could attain such perfection. In addition many troubles might arise in applying such a system to a car capable of doing 80 M.P.H. with a big closed body. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} | ||