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).
Summary and recommendation concerning the potential purchase of a Maybach car or gearbox for comparative analysis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 182\M19\ img035 | |
| Date | 2nd March 1931 | |
| -3- Suspension. This has no particular merit. SUMMARY. We should have chosen 26-EX. the trials car at Berlin in preference to the Maybach from the point of view of silence and performance had we been a customer. Therefore we do not recommend we buy a complete car unless (1) We regard the unit as being useful from the point of view of negative information. (2) The time element is of such importance that we cannot wait and fit a Maybach box to a P.II. Delivery of the car we want is one month. The price, delivered in London on a trip-tique will be about £1,800. We are not surprised Maybachs have not obtained better results as they spread their engine energies between Airship, Bus and car engines and have not a big technical staff. We recommend we buy a gearbox and fit it to a P.II. this will give us definite results with our flywheel inertia etc. Dr. Maybach is writing to us re-delivery. Personally we would not sacrifice silence on top and in neutral for an easy change between bottom and second speeds which are so rarely used, but if we get a gearbox a general opinion can soon be obtained from all concerned. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||