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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.
  
  


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