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).
'booming' noise from car panels and the objection to a proposed alteration.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 3\1\ 01-page110 | |
Date | 17th February 1914 guessed | |
-2- the cause of the trouble, and if they are made slack like the head of an old Landaulet it should not then "boom". We informed Mr Haldenby to this effect but he strongly objects to making this alteration because of spoiling the appearance of the car, because, he says if the panels are made sufficiently slack they will "flop about and look like a shapeless bag of wind." p. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} | ||