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).
Engine mounting systems and proposals for future engine designs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\2\ img075 | |
| Date | 19th February 1934 guessed | |
| V is worth a Cwt of Combustion Chamber theory. Anyhow one cannot conjecture what this is worth as we have done little of such work ourselves. The engine mounting is interesting and from enquiries I believe this is responsible for more than half the smoothness. It is exactly upon the eight. The large block of rubber at the rear and the two pneumatic cups in front give exceptional softness which we have not yet tried. I send blue prints of the parts in question which, & you should be able to get from Hudson's England. Hudsons say that they have tried this against the Chrysler floating power mount and are just as good at less cost. Summarising (1). Here is an engine mounting well worth fully investigating whatever type of engine we may build in the future (2). Here is a six Cyl engine, of the cheapest possible construction, containing a number of features that we should condemn theoretically as being inimical to power & smoothness i.e. three bearing crank with | ||