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).
On hotel letterhead about fitting a new Dubonnet shock damper to a car and subsequent testing plans.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154\1\ scan0204 | |
| Date | 2nd December 1934 | |
| x3873 HOTEL SYLVA PERGOLÈSE Av. de la {L. A. Archer} Grande-Armée – 3, RUE PERGOLÈSE – Près du Bois de Boulogne — PARIS (xviᵉ) — Téléphone : PASSY 38-12 — 25-54 Registre du Commerce Seine N° 483.913 Sunday 2-12-34 Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Dubonnet is at the moment fitting his new type of shock damper to 19RTIV. The car should be ready first thing tomorrow with the parts fitted, which were being drawn when you left. After this test he will fit the normal Dubonnet levers in the hopes. These give the same characteristics to every other Dubonnet system. The test after this will be with his original variable rating system - giving increased | ||