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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).
Describing a vehicle's poor ride quality, specifically the pitching and the damping system.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 17\1\  Scan122
Date  16th May 1934 guessed
  
It would even make a Cadilac pitch. Anyhow I took it very serious by which Mrs Bangers sitting by my side tried to emphasize the badness of the pitching by helping from her legs to show daylight where she should have been sitting. It was immediately obvious to me that the damping system was working. That is the springing was unbearable
  
  


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