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).
Standardization of oil hydraulic shock dampers and the related supply of wheels from the Dunlop Company.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 55\3\ Scan109 | |
| Date | 15th March 1926 | |
| X235 1 HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} BYB/H. 15.3.26. OIL HYDRAULIC SHOCK DAMPERS. V3809 I am not wanting to worry you unnecessarily on the above matter, but I would just like to remind you that as soon as you see a way through with the shock damper, and are likely to standardize it, I would like to be warned that this is the case, as the question of getting wheels with wellbase rims is dependant, so far as I can see at the moment, now only upon the new shock damper materialising for production. The Dunlop Company tell us definitely that they can change over from one type of wheel to the other in approximately one month from the date we pass on the information, but of course they will have a number of wheels going through their Works, which we should have to take delivery of or come to some arrangement with them about, from the point of view of compensating them. BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||