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).
Cause of body booming in experimental car X971, suggesting leather panels are to blame.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 3\1\ 01-page106 | |
| Date | 12th December 1913 | |
| Sp.{Mr Spinney} Re. Body booming. X971. Our experimental car 2300 was reported as being a very bad "boomer", and we wish to apply your suggested cure to this car; Mr Johnson sanctions the test, but Mr Haldenby now says that this is impossible, because the body is of quite different construction to the kind of body to which you refer. The roof is not made of wood, but is of sheet metal, lined with cloth, and stiffened by wood batons, also the back panels and part of the quarter panels are made of leather tightly stretched, and the booming on this particular car appears to be chiefly owing to these leather panels, and not by the roof. This being the case, we would like you to confirm whether your suggestions, or any others you may care to make, would be of any use. p.WOR.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} | ||