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).
Departmental memo discussing the testing of steering components and proposing a special connecting tube with an overload spring.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 20\2\ Scan011 | |
| Date | 23th January 1912 | |
| R.R. 475 (50 H) (X 547. 23.1.12) E.P. 1078 ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 813 (Two Lines). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. DATE. X963 The following parts should be tested :- 1. Whole steering column with swinging lever arm and ball end in position. 2. Front steering cross tube and the various actuating levers attached to front pivots. You will I am sure realise that the breaking of any steering parts whilst a car was being driven by a customer would be a very serious matter. Perhaps a better idea would be that the whole steering gear should be tested on the car, a special steering connecting tube being used which is fitted with an overload spring which gives way when the maximum strain (as above) is put on the steering. A similar device say as the overload spring as was tried on the foot brake mechanism. Could not such a special tube be made and supplied to me. E.P. | ||