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).
Road testing issues with a 20 HP car, focusing on ineffective dampers, flexible springs, and body instability.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 12\1\ 01-page129 | |
| Date | 17th April 1929 guessed | |
| contd :- -2- and after us. Weshall throw away our advantages, and be beaten, if we make mistakes and do nothing to cure them quickly. At the moment we are finding out if we can make the 20 HP. dampers more effective (like the last two SS.{S. Smith} before we plugged valve leak). The body tumbles about like a mass of many tons, and only very low speeds are possible on this especially bad section of road. I think road springs are too flexible also. The body is a rather heavy Hooper, with that wretched signal window robbing elbow room. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||