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).
Correspondence between the UK and US offices regarding contradictory test results on Phantom springing and requesting instrument details.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67a\1\ scan0076 | |
| Date | 23th February 1926 | |
| 78410 Expl: Office, Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby, England. Rolls-Royce (America) Inc., Springfield, Mass., U.S.A. 23rd. Feb. 1926. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/LG23.2.26. CY. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} PHANTOM SPRINGING. 78410 75410 We wish to thank you for your reports on Springing - they are most useful to us. On the Phantom springing you appear to be repeating a series of tests which we carried out on the first front wheel brake cars. We did make tests to try and prove whether anchoring the front spring at the rear was responsible for increase in road shocks. On the same car we changed over from rear anchorage to front anchorage but we could not appreciate any difference. We get such contradictory reports on the comfort of cars from our own experts when trying the same car, that we have kept off the problem. We are, however, shortly starting a series of tests to see whether we can measure differences in springing. We should like you to send us particulars of the New-ton and Norton instruments. From the chart you have sent us of the Norton, we cannot see that it would be of much value. The chart shews the floor to be more comfortable than the seat contd :- | ||