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).
Proposal to reduce front shock damping by 50% and seeking expert opinion on the matter.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 151\2\ scan0138 | |
| Date | 12th January 1934 | |
| E LES See me # x4698 To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} F.PY. Controllable Shock Dampers - 40/50. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 12/Ell.1.34 I am in receipt of Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les.4/KW10.1.34 relative to shock damper loading. In view of the recent memo. from E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} about shock damping being too much on the back in particular, I should like to have his comments on the suggestion now put forward of reducing the front damping by half. So far as 104-MY is concerned, it can be available almost any day if you will give me a day's notice. I appreciate that the reduced front damper loads will increase the reliability of the front of the car but one wonders whether a 50% reduction will leave sufficient damping when the maximum is required, i.e. high speeds in France, and one would rather like to have Hancock's views on this as one imagines that he did not run the whole of the time with the shock absorbers in the maximum position. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||