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).
Disappointing noise and vibration issues with the 25-EX L.H. Car destined for the USA.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\4\ Scan211 | |
| Date | 3rd October 1930 | |
| H/s X7772. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re 25-EX L.H. Car Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}12/E3.10.30 Copy to Wes. for USA. I am very sorry to note from your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/AD2.10.30 that, although you took this car to West WitteringHenry Royce's home town, you were only able to show R.{Sir Henry Royce} how bad it was. This certainly is very disappointing, especially after all your efforts to get it right. This question of the amount of fuss and noise was, as you will recollect, a strong criticism of mine of the P.II right back in the days when we were trying the experimental ones up and down the arterial roads but we do not seem to have progressed very far, and yet, as we know by our test on the 6 cylinder Bentley which we had out and tried at the same time, their car, while suffering from many other troubles, was extraordinarily good so far as the engine was concerned. I gathered from what you said at Derby last week that our trouble was in a large measure due to our having had to adopt a system of engine mounting to reduce the jellying trouble to the minimum but which in its turn partly accounted for the trouble referred to. I know that you are doing your best and hope that, when you take it out again next week, you will have been able to improve it considerably. I should very much have liked to try it before it goes to America so you might please bear this in mind with a view to trying to fit it in. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||