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 rigidity and strength of steering levers compared to the pivot, considering shock absorption.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 2\12\ B002_X168-page118 | |
| Date | 9th June 1913 guessed | |
| Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}/Hyll/L9613. (contd) 2. varied. At the same time we should carefully consider whether the steering levers should not be strengthened. May we not have made the levers so rigid that there is practically no flexion and that the shocks which were previously damped partly in the pivot are now entirely taken by the steering levers ? The pivot and steering levers were probably equally stiff before or nearly so, but now the pivot is considerably stiffer than the lever and the lever is therefore more likely to give way. Y S Hallenly | ||