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).
Experiments on a Trials Landaulette to diagnose a steering issue potentially caused by the split rear springs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\3\ scan0217 | |
| Date | 28th January 1920 | |
| X.3922 PN.{Mr Northey} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Bn.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} c. to EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} --- X.936. - RE STEERING ON TRIALS LANDAULETTE. We have received a telegram from Mr. Royce as you are no doubt aware, suggesting that the trouble with the steering is due to the split rear springs and he has asked us to carry out some tests. At the works we find it is difficult to get hold of a car which is sufficiently bad to experiment with. We suggest that we should carry out a few experiments on the Trials Landaulette; we could come down to London and do them and should not hold the car up for more than a day. We should also have the advantage of getting the results confirmed by people who have been used to driving that car. What we wish to do is to clip the split bottom leaf together so as to make it much less flexible. We have made the necessary clips and we could take the car on the road and change over in a few minutes, from the present split springs to something comparable with the solid leaf springs. We think that this is the only satisfactory way of proving whether the springs have any detrimental effect because by the time one has changed the springs to the solid leaf the conditions will have altered. We also wish to try another side steering tube with a different arrangement of buffer springs. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||