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).
Report page discussing road spring control, horizontal rigidity, and the importance of suspension.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\2\ scan0146 | |
| Date | 26th April 1926 guessed | |
| -4- Contd. There are several other items not mentioned in the foregoing which are rather lengthy to discuss, such as the distance from the road to the road spring control causing lateral movements of the car, horizontal rigidity, and the value of keeping the front road wheels in an approximately constant vertical plane - (Sizaire & Lancia schemes). These three points we are experimenting with and will be reported upon when we find some definite results. In the meantime we must realise the importance of the suspension is now greater than any other feature on an otherwise fairly perfect car, and that we must make the best of what we have, because with our own, the coachbuilders, or the owners' bad management it can so easily be spoilt. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||