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).
Investigations into car performance, specifically a 40/50 car and a Bentley on Belgian roads.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 17\4\ Scan076 | |
| Date | 30th August 1934 guessed | |
| DE:8.OEH EH -S- off the oil supply to them, and it occurs to me that the Experimental Dept. may like to avail themselves of this case for investigations which appear to be necessary both on account for the 40/50 car and the Bentley on the Belgian roads. It must be understood that Mr. Whyte at his works and garage will be very busy for the next five or six days and has asked me to ring him up late in the afternoon or at the week end. The tyres have taken extraordinary punishment, and the front ones are worn right down to the canvas as are also the brakes, but he has covered some 30,000 miles in the last four or five months and has a well-built young man as driver. He says the springs are a great success and with effort has let down them twice and has tested them with a load of no less than ten persons, but says the car is better on bad roads than on good ones; it has a floating motion and he would be complimented if we would send a man down to try it and amongst the shocks professionally known amongst the associates in France. Mr. Whyte is a reliable, versatile and particularly anxious to help us to ascertain what is the present state of things and there are a number of weekly visitors who do not know much but it is becoming generally known that the springs are good with no rebound; consequently, he says, there are no repercussions; I am giving him a letter by which we can buy two lots of plates-AYORWA. (much discussed) I told Mr. Whyte that the whole position was receiving our consideration and that no report would be given until further notice but that no official report would be offered. He tells me if it was proposed and their two men had such a time that even the removal of the springs would be setting T.O.P. | ||