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 explaining a shock absorber lever failure and the status of replacement parts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67\2\ scan0010 | |
| Date | 28th January 1920 | |
| X.3507 Le CanadelHenry Royce's French residence, 28.1.20. X.3461b. X.3743. Mr. Hives, Experimental Dept. Messrs. R-R Ltd., Derby. I received a wire from you yesterday asking if I had received the shock absorber parts, also saying you had written to me at Paris asking me to explain how shock absorber lever was forced off, to which I replied as follows:- "Have not yet received shock absorber parrs, Mr. Johnson has wired Conduit St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} saying Entwistle should bring them to Nice Your letters havenot arrived yet from Paris have already written you re shock absorber am sending further report to morrow". It was on CJ's instruction Iwired to you for shock absorber parts to be sent to Paris and I suppose it has been chiefly to the scarcity of petrol that I have not been sent to Paris before now. X.3507. I believe CJ. has given you the impression that the shock absorber lever was forced off the square shaft through fouling the luggage grid bracket on side of frame. This is not so. What happened is that the bolt which clips the lever to the square shaft must have stretched slightly thus loosening the lever and as the bolt does not lie in a groove on the shaft there was nothing to prevent the lever working itself off. The other end of the lever, or rather the tube which connects the lever to the ball end bracket, fouled the luggage grid bracket on frame and so sheared off the bolt in | ||