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).
Letter from the Oxford English Dictionary discussing the definition and application of the word 'juddering' in a motoring context.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\3\ Scan070 | |
| Date | 31th March 1939 | |
| OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY Old Ashmolean, Broad Street, Oxford 31 March '39 Dear Henderson, Many thanks for your letter of the 29th, telling me about 'juddering'. I am not quite clear about one point. You would restrict the word to a type of faulty action on the part of a clutch — a jerky action; which I think I have noticed. But the quotation sent me seems to refer to drawing up a car, and I wonder whether the word might not be applicable to jerky braking effects. It seems most likely that jerking would arise from the alternate holding and failing/& slipping of a frictional connection. In accelerating the possible places where this could occur are between parts of the clutch, and between the tyres and the ground — the former is perhaps the likelier if the adjustment or manipulation is not as it should be. P.T.O | ||