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Letter on hotel stationery detailing steering modifications and feedback.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 19\5\  Scan009
Date  21th July 1929
  
A.A. & R.A.C.
Telephone No. 125
E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} D. {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} SIMS Proprietor
Red Lion Hotel
Family and Commercial
High Street, Bracknell
x7950.
Sunday.
21-7-29
To. Mr Hives.
Expt Dept.
Dear Sir,
The car ran down to London extremely well yesterday, and on my arrival at PN {Mr Northey} 's house, he took the car to Esher.
On his return he complained of lack of steering selectivity and insisted that I put washers at the back of the springs in the front end of the side steering tube.
This I did this morning, and he now says the steering is very much better. The washers I fitted
  
  
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).


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