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).
Letter to a coachbuilder discussing instruments and expressing disappointment in Mercedes products.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 128\1\ scan0353 | |
| Date | 27th June 1938 | |
| 1104 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/R.{Sir Henry Royce} 27th June, 1938. F.L. Manning, Esq., Messrs. Hooper & Co., (Coachbuilders) Ltd., 54, St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} James's Street, Piccadilly, S.W.1. Dear Manning, We take to heart what you say about the instruments, and will try and do better in the future. We are exceedingly interested in the Mercedes. If you do get an opportunity of trying it, we should like to be in on the tests. I am going over to Paris next week, and possibly might get an opportunity of making its acquaintance there. So far I have always been extremely disappointed in Mercedes products, they seem invariably to be too heavy, the controls give one the impression that one is driving a lorry, and the suspension, although independent on all four wheels is no better than the cars with conventional rear springing. Yours sincerely, | ||