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).
Page 2 of a report detailing car modifications and performance observations from Mays & Co.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 128\1\ scan0196 | |
| Date | 12th September 1935 guessed | |
| -2- weight ratio in the opinion of Mays & Co. They are having no trouble with their German differential, bar having to stiffen up the axle shafts to take the work. They have improved the cornering of their cars by having a horizontal cross in the frame designed only to prevent lateral parallelogramming behind the gear box. It contributes no torsional stiffness. They have made a great improvement in tappet life by chromium plating the camshaft, not the tappet. Mays is loud in praise of his Bentley, which they used for 6 days continuously lapping the Nurburg ring in Germany, to learn the course. It has 170 corners in a 15 miles lap, and May's best time in his Bentley was 17 mins. E/TSN. | ||