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).
The use of spring buffers or elasticity in steering pivots and levers to absorb road shocks.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 2\B002_X168\ 00000001-page160 | |
| Date | 19th August 1913 | |
| E.R. 1968 R.R. 40 M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} 10.12. R.W. 458 RB{R. Bowen}/P 19.8.13. 168 Re Steering Pivots - X447. AW/BHSG/C22413. [Stamped: RECEIVED 21 AUG 1913] [Margin notes:] Mr.Haldenby Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} Ja. Sda. Libary With reference to steering pivots and steering levers, We have not yet obtained any information as to whether any spring buffers or elasticity is beneficial for saving the steering gear from the enormous shocks caused by the car running into caniveaux, or worse still, against a sudden rise in the road, such as occurs where the road has been mended in sections. I cannot help thinking that some elasticity would be very desirable, both for the sake of the steering gear, and also the springs and axles and sub axles. R.{Sir Henry Royce} [Signature: JAC] [Handwritten note:] Experiments have been made with spring buffers in the cross steering tube and were reported on by Mr Hives reference AW/EHI/C2243 Report on steering pivot X247 A copy of an extract from this report should be sent to Mr Royce [Signature: WH] | ||