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).
Internal memorandum discussing the investigation into a high-speed wobble or flutter issue in a car design.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\4\ Scan115 | |
| Date | 14th January 1921 | |
| ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR", DERBY" TELEPHONE: 476 (FOUR LINES) [Routing List] Mr. ADAMS Mr. BAILEY Mr. HOTCHINSHAW Mr. EVERNDEN Mr. CHAMBERLAIN Mr. COX Mr. DIXON Mr. DOIDGE Mr. DAY Mr. ELLIOTT Mr. EVANS Mr. EVER Mr. HALLIDAY Mr. HARVEY Mr. HINDLE Mr. JOHNSON Mr. JOHNSON'S Successor Mr. KILNER Mr. HENTHORN Mr. ROOM Mr. RIDGE Mr. MANGOLD Mr. NORMAN Mr. PATERSON Mr. PLATTS Mr. ROBINSON Mr. ROYCE Mr. ROYCE'S Successor Mr. JAMES ROYCE Mr. HERBERT SCOTT Mr. SHIRLEY Mr. VIANNEY Mr. WALLIS Mr. WHITEHEAD Mr. WORMALD ACR/FW We have no reason to suppose that the Wobble or flutter at high speed is due to any inherent fault in the design, which has now been in use for a considerable time. We are, however, fully alive to its importance and have now been able to reproduce it with reference to our own car, with all the various changes we have made to it in the past two years. [Text heavily crossed out: We are not sure that we have not got to the bottom of the trouble & hope to be able to advise you shortly.] For The Company (Signature of Royce) Chief Engineer [Footer, printed upside down] Take care that this sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||