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 suspected collapsed front springs and incorrect yoke pieces on a vehicle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\4\ scan0062 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1935 | |
| G.W. Hancock, Esq., Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. I note you are suspecting that the front springs have collapsed. Through having the incorrect yoke pieces, the wheels on your car are closer to one another at the top than standard. The latest yoke piece gives the same wheel angle as a Phantom. So far we have not been able to measure any collapsing of coil springs even after 100 hours on the bumper. However, here are the buffer clearances of SpectreCodename for Phantom III III taken by Martindale immediately before the car left England. Can you let me have similar readings from the car now. The car empty and with 4 passengers. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} | ||