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).
Development of a quieter axle to address noise issues, with a proposal to install it in a demonstration limousine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan251 | |
| Date | 18th December 1922 | |
| -To-Blr- from Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Sgn LHS{Lord Herbert Scott}/GA Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X3730 Worl/W18/12/22. RECEIVED DEC Noisy bodies and noisy axles REG.II. X3730 XC4256 May we suggest that we have the new green limousine demonstration car at the Works at the earliest possible moment? We have been working continuously on the axle problem and we have studied every little part that was likely to give trouble, and perfected in every way we know the workmanship and methods in connection with the axle. Everybody at the Works has been enthusiastic to produce something better. We have succeeded to such an extent that I can almost guarantee that we are going to produce Goshawk back axles as quiet as the 40/50. We have now an axle which is really very good, confirmed this morning by Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}, Maddocks and myself on an experimental covered body. We are busy producing more such axles and are hopeful of success. We would like to put this very good axle in the green limousine at Derby. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} | ||