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).
Springs on a Terraplane car and suggesting a competitive analysis of its components.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 21\6\ Scan124 | |
| Date | 30th January 1934 | |
| X4217 To EH. from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Wcr.Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} re Terraplane. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}20/E30.1.34 I tried this car last week-end and shall be writing a note later about the engine in particular, but this memo. is in reference to the springs only. Here is a car the springing of which struck me and my friends as being particularly good except perhaps at low speeds due probably to the Hartford shock absorbers being rather tight. It is a motor car which sells for under £400 in England and one cannot imagine that the people spend very much on the springs, and I thought it would be interesting if, when the car comes back to Derby, you arranged - (if you have not already done so) - to have one front and one back spring dismantled and opened up with a view to comparing its manufacture with the xx very expensive and elaborate process that ours have to be put through. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||