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).
Tests to reduce headlamp and wing movement on the Bentley, and a request for a new stabiliser design.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 3\6\ 06-page254 | |
| Date | 11th October 1934 | |
| To E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} From Ha/Ra. c. to Dn. c. to Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} K 4533 Ha/Ra.16/KW.11.10.34. Bentley Headlamp & Wing Movement. ------------------------------- Attached is a report on the tests we have been making to reduce the wing movement on the Bentley. In this particular series of experiments our object has been to get something which can benefit the customer quickly, and which can be fitted to cars already produced. The quantitative results require a little amplification, actually when we reduce the wing and lamp movement to 300 from the driving seat one can say that an 80% cure has been effected. Summarising the results, we are asking you to give us a design for a torsional stabiliser in the form of a bumper of similar proportions to that produced by the Rover Company which we have handed to you. It would obviously be an advantage if the existing front dumb irons could be arranged to carry this bumper so that existing cars can be dealt with. The dropped front cross member is unnecessarily heavy for the little advantage which it gives. We are experimenting with something on the same lines, about one third to one half the weight, which we think may be worth fitting. Ha/Ra. Att: Hn{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}16/KW.11.10.34. | ||