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).
Report discussing the effectiveness of friction in the steering system to improve shock absorption and reduce sponginess.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 17\3\ Scan137 | |
| Date | 22th March 1927 guessed | |
| contd :- -3- However, increasing the dimensions of the worm and nut should result in consistency over a greater period. We are convinced that we can demonstrate that friction incorporated on the steering wheel side of the side steering tube springs is more effective than anywhere else in the steering system, provided always that low speed wobbles have been otherwise dealt with by damping on the axle. Our explanation is that in this position friction makes the side steering tube springs do more work when absorbing shocks, and less work when the car is being steered, result - greater freedom from road shocks and less sponginess. We believe spring self centering would improve the effect. On R.A.C.V11 the lightness of the steering when shunting due to the decrease in weight over the front axle with the aluminium engine, is agreeably pronounced. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/W.A. Robotham. | ||