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).
Extract detailing an experiment to test an axle assembly without a cross tie rod.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 2\6\ B002_X 140 141 157-page219 | |
| Date | 6th March 1913 guessed | |
| X141 Extract from F.H.R. 5313. Experiment 371. Also tests should be made to see if the cross tie rod can be done away with. Should there be a scrap casting available (aound), fix the tubes and support the axle at both ends of the tu tube, and load the centre, and note strength deflection etc, and test which part gives way first. F.H.R. | ||