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).
Analysis of chassis component failure, specifically regarding brackets, rivets, and cross tube lugs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\3\ scan0257 | |
| Date | 10th February 1913 guessed | |
| -2- rivets out, while the same difficulty does not appear to have been experienced with the rivets in the sound bracket. Also, the sound bracket (and also the broken bracket, to a slighter extent) appears to have been moving in the frame. I think the failure is undoubtedly due to side pressure on front horns, causing the torsion in the side members, which has a tendency to break off the lugs of the cross tube brackets, and as pointed out in my previous report on chassis 1484 this tendency is very much exaggerated if the rivets of one bracket are loose. I notice that the sound bracket is cracked in 3 places, which correspond to the lugs broken in the opposite bracket. This point is somewhat against the theory that the | ||