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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).
Critique of a Cottin car's components and the noise from a Weymann body after 10,000 miles.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 21\4\  Scan018
Date  25th January 1919 guessed
  
contd :- -3-

less likely to promote wobbles.
Incidentally the brakes, clutch, steering etc. of the Cottin
are so inferior that there is little pleasure to be had
from driving this car and its second-hand value would be
almost zero. The Weymann body was interesting as a demon-
stration of the amount of noise such a body can produce
after running 10,000 miles.


Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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