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).
Proposed modifications and testing for the Corniche model, including collecting the car from Paris.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\3\ scan0220 | |
| Date | 14th July 1939 | |
| 400g [Handwritten]: Please get out a programme for these trials Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} [Handwritten]: F.J. HARDY CHATEAUROUX. / 14.7.39. [Handwritten Initials: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}] [Handwritten Initials over text: AH] To Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} I4BV- Corniche. Thank you for your telegram received this afternoon to which we have replied. ROBOTHAM-CORNICHE PROMISED WEDNESDAY NINETEENTH-WALLER. I have arranged to go to Paris and see Sr. on that day and bring the car back if it is really ready. F.Dodd has a list of the suggested modifications and I will send you a report on the work actually done and its results when we get the car back. The directional stability of 30.G.7. certainly makes one feel that there must be something very much the matter with the Corniche. We should like to borrow the aparatus used by Hardy to measure castor angle on the car. The parts we should like to try are- 1) 1.25° castor yokes with pivot pins and steering levers to suit. 2) Reduced out of centre point yokes and pivots. [Handwritten: 6 weeks.] 3) Old geometry parts. 4) 7" Static deflection rear springs as on standard BV. and production .750" diam front roll rod. No doubt you will have further suggestions to make. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} [Signature]: A.{Mr Adams} Waller. | ||