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).
Vehicle component issues and suggestions for improvement, including dynamo speed, steering joints, and electrical equipment inspection.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan207 | |
| Date | 22th April 1922 guessed | |
| -2- ordinary commutator the end ring might be reinforced by a short piece of steel tube, i.e. steel ring, and the steel shaft or a tube be fitted with nuts and washers to hold the Bakelite together end-wise. You will remember that our dynamo runs at 4500 revs. when the car is going really fast, itshould be tested to 5,500 at all temperatures. Steering and Shock Absorber joints have been dealt with but whoever was responsible for cars leaving England with (?) leather protectors, road water washed away the grease and those here were absolutely devoid of any grease and working in road grit and water, what could we expect. For strength and longer life I have suggested cross tube should have larger size balls which will give a stronger neck. Longitudinal buffers at rear end were found on 4 by Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} to have very little force movement, i.e. choc-a-bloc directly, so we made it much greater. It is possible that irreversible steering by plain thrust may reduce the shocks on steering box though by ordinary reasoning (?) it made it worse, but it is just possible that it is the movement of the frame that broke it. But I do not think so after steering the car over these dreadful roads, the pot holes are enormous and many people pick their way slowly (probably owners.) The Electrical equipment should be carefully inspected both as manufacture parts and when complete on the car, I found on No.4 signs of carelessness of both, or damaged during erection. Generally great congratulations that we had no serious breaks through material being wrong or wrongly heat-treated. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||