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).
Proposal for a plain thrust bearing in the steering column for the Goshawk 11.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\4\ Scan267 | |
| Date | 29th April 1922 | |
| X.4264 R.R. 189 (500 H) (SD. 296. 15.3.17) M.P. 176549. To BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to CJ. c. to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} c. to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} Dal/M29.4.22. GOSHAWK 11. PLAIN THRUST BEARING IN STEERING COLUMN. X.4264 We send you herewith N.sch.1260 shewing our proposal for the above. It is thought that various materials might be tried. We have shewn hardened steel centre hub with hardened steel loose washers and bronze spherical washers. You might like to try fibre loose washers with the other parts in steel. It will be seen that the tubes are the same except that the swaged tube is machined rather differently. We should be glad to have any remarks you may wish to make about this point and also about the alteration to the fittings, which in order to make a satisfactory job appear to be necessarily different. Hives, in one of his reports refers to a plain thrust bearing done at WW. The only one we know of is one done by us at Derby and fitted to 7-CA. If this is the one we should be much obliged if you would send us a print of the design, which will be an N.sch. Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||