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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 the Panhard Knight 25-horse chassis design, focusing on its shortcomings.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 23\3\  Scan004
Date  17th May 1911
  
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17th May 1911

If they will go on making chassis like this I think we shall gain in the end. I think a fair cry against them would be "Silence at any price".

Referring to the Panhard Knight, the 25-horse seems to be the one which is running about England. If this works any better than the English one, it must be due to the points I have raised above, or the exceedingly good workmanship put into it.

For instance, the torque rod is very short, which is a bad feature; considerable amount of room is wasted between the engine and the gear box; the back axle bevel drive is a casting of which we have received a sample from the Cothias Co. and is not a good pattern for strength, and appears to us to have many defects.
  
  


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