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).
Letter to a customer regarding steering problems at high speed on chassis 128-PY due to Belgian road conditions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 17\4\ Scan092 | |
| Date | 2nd November 1934 guessed | |
| Gustav Wyns, Esq. Dear Sir, Chassis No. 128-PY. Following on the visit of our representative Mr. Hancock to Brussels and his trials of your car with you under the conditions in which you use it, we have now received from our Works their views. Our Works are of the opinion that there is one type of road surface in Belgium on which we cannot hope to be successful in giving you steady steering at the speed of 55 m.p.h. at which you desire to drive. This type of road is that paved with large pave stones and which for the most part is in very bad condition throughout Belgium. While it might be possible to obtain greater steadiness for these bad conditions by designing and making a very stiff steering, such as you describe as being fitted to your large Minerva car, our Works are of the opinion that this would be definitely a retrograde step and moreover, one that you would not appreciate even if we were to take it. You yourself expressed to the writer, and we believe also to Mr. Hancock that this stiff steering on your other car is too tiring to use on any but short journeys. Your journeys are frequently long ones, not only to Paris as described to the writer, but, we believe, to Czecho Slovakia and even Poland. On these long journeys | ||