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).
Alarming tyre wear and high-speed steering wobbles in American cars, with a comparison to Stutz and the Phantom steering.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 158\1\ scan0047 | |
| Date | 6th February 1928 guessed | |
| contd :- -2- A point of interest arose in the discussion as to the alarming tyre wear developing on the front wheels of many American cars due to hurried alterations made in wheel toe-in or transverse pivot inclination to deal with high speed wobbles. The situation appears to be so alarming in America that the tyre makers, in order to safeguard themselves, have unofficially inaugurated a service company in New York to deal with cars that have been turned out from the makers in Packard,-Cadillac-and-La{L. A. Archer}-Salle this condition. Our own experience on Packard, Cadillac, and La{L. A. Archer} Salle is that the American car manufacturers have so far failed badly to overcome high speed shimmy without spoiling their steering. The Stutz is better than the average in this respect, although at high speeds the lack of selectiveness is rather disagreeable. We are not, therefore, surprised that General Motors comment favourably on the Phantom steering. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/W.A.Robotham. | ||