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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).
Typed memorandum with a hand-drawn diagram illustrating a modification to steering pivots and a side steering tube with set up springs.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 80\2\  scan0041
Date  26th January 1920
  
Contd. -2- R4/G26.1.20.

I should like you also to take out the thrust bearings on the top of the steering pivots and fit in fibre washers, so as to give some damping friction to the front pivots.

R.{Sir Henry Royce}

THERE IS A SET UP LOAD WITH THIS ARRANGEMENT ON EACH BALL CUTTING OUT FLEXIBILITY FOR LOADS OF LESSER MAGNITUDE THAN THE SPRING LOAD.

SIDE STEERING TUBE
WITH SET UP SPRINGS

DIAGRAMMATIC

R.R. 235 A 100 (T) (S.F.) 846. 6-8-19. C. 2460.
  
  


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