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).
Confirmation of a telephone message regarding front axle control, discussing double radius rods, spring length, and costs for front wheel brakes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\3\ scan0273 | |
| Date | 8th July 1924 | |
| Handwritten: HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Handwritten: X 9421 To WOH. from CJ. c. to R.{Sir Henry Royce} and Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Front Axle Control. CJ8/ES/7/24 Confirmation of telephone message. Referring to the above, the last correspondence we can trace on the subject is a memo. from DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} to EY in which he says that R.{Sir Henry Royce} would like the Exp.Dept. to test the double radius rods indicated on a drawing sent them. What has happened since then? Have we any results of the experiments? If not, when do you expect results? The questions we have before us are: If springs lengthened by about one inch do not very materially affect the very unsatisfactory - perhaps almost impossible - control by springs of the front axle:- 1. Could the double radius rods be applied to the 360 chassis already issued? If so, at what extra cost per chassis over and above the already estimated cost of fitting four wheel brakes, including scrapping of material and work in progress? 2. What delay would be entailed and how many more chassis would be issued without front brakes as compared with the present programme of spring control? 3. What would be the extra cost over and above the estimated cost of fitting front wheel brakes of substituting the radius rod control for spring control on chassis which are not to leave the Works until they are complete with front wheel brakes? CJ. | ||