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 the Cadillac Motor Car Company regarding Eyston's car, skid-pan measurements, and handling tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 170\3\ img111 | |
| Date | 16th December 1936 | |
| oy. (Experimental Dept.) Rml1/R.{Sir Henry Royce} 16th December 1936. M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Olley, Esq., Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan. U.S.A. Dear Olley, Many belated thanks for your long letter re Eyston's car. He is going to take advantage of all your suggestions, except that of locking the differential solid. He knows from experience that this will cause disaster in the event of a tyre burst. I expect you will be wanting to take skid-pan measurements when you get to England, and would warn you, therefore, that autosyn motors are unobtainable in England, and that we had to get ours from the States. So far, the tests we have carried out on cars made in this Factory show that at a corner of about .4G we do not get more than 1° of oversteer or understeer. This seems surprisingly little, and we shall check our apparatus on the Chevrolet. If you have any secret for draining the G.M. skid pan and preventing large lakes occuring on it, we should be very grateful to know what the secret is. Yours sincerely, | ||