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).
Disagreements over damper design, mentioning Dubonnet, variable rating, and taper needle dampers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154\1\ scan0217 | |
| Date | 2nd December 1934 guessed | |
| he is far too keen on his own novelties, and spends a lot of time before dispensing with his wrong ideas. I have got him to agree against variable rating, but still have trouble with his d- taper needle damper. Dubonnet is treating our car rather for trying new things, than giving us what other manufacturers have found to be best with his system. Rather than stay here and make lots of tests on silly pressure velocity dampers I have told Dubonnet that you require the car | ||