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Progress of RHC work on steering experiments.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 95\1\  scan0216
Date  19th September 1935
  
To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} 20/KW.19.9.35.

Progress of RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Work.

(1) Steering Experiments on 21-G-IV.
Memo. sent to RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} 6.9.35.
RHC {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} 's Dept. is now deciding what parts to make for this experiment, i.e., 13 days after instructions were sent from this Dept.

(2) Between 4 and 5 weeks ago HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} was asked verbally to try the effect of moving the roller sideways on Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) steering in an attempt to eliminate the tendency to a tight spot on one lock when 0.002" crowning is used. The rockershaft for this experiment was machined within 1 week, but since then nothing has been done.
This experiment does not involve a new steering gear, as it can be carried out in the skeleton box.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /F.J.Hardy.
  
  
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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