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).
Letter from Rudge-Whitworth Ltd. concerning the diagnosis and resolution of a wheel creak.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\4\ scan0030 | |
| Date | 24th May 1922 | |
| RUDGE-WHITWORTH LTD., COVENTRY. Ref: JVP/F.{Mr Friese} Wednesday, 24th May 1922. "Just after you telephoned us on Monday I saw Mr. Daniell and told him what I had said, viz. that I personally had never heard or experienced the creak in question although I didn't, of course, dispute its existence. I told him that there was a creak on my car, the origin of which I hadn't discovered, but which I supposed might be due to a slightly loose mudguard. Mr. Daniell said he could recognise it if it was a wheel creak and we went out on it and he so diagnosed it. All four wheels of the car were then jacked up and each one tried with a spanner and a two pounds steel hammer. One front refused to move and was evidently tight enough - the other three screwed up slightly. I think only the two back wheels were creaking but it is difficult to be sure. This tightening cured all but one back wheel which continued to creak. we then jacked the car up again, oiled the locknut both on cone seat and on the thread, hammered it up as before, noticing that it went about another quarter of a revolution, and it has not creaked since; the car has done an additional 200 K/m.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Returning to wheel creak; the matter is, of course, very important from our point of view and I should like Mr. Daniell to go over to France to see to it. Yours faithfully, (Signed) JOHN PUGH. | ||