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).
Suspension design, road spring control, and ongoing experiments with different schemes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67a\1\ scan0172 | |
| Date | 26th April 1926 guessed | |
| -4- Contd. There are several other items not mentioned in the foregoing which are rather lengthy to discuss, such as the distance from the road to(struck out) of the road spring control causing lateral movements of the car, horizontal rigidity, and the value of keeping the front road wheels in an approximately constant vertical plane - (Sizaire & Lancia schemes). These three points we are experimenting with and will be reported upon when we find some definite results. In the meantime we must realise the <u>importance</u> of the <u>suspension</u> is now greater than any other <u>feature</u> on an otherwise fairly perfect car, <u>and that we must make the best of what we have</u>, because with our own, the coachbuilders, or the <u>owners'</u> bad management it can <u>so</u> <u>easily</u> be spoilt. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||