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).
Rapid wear of steering nuts on 14-PK and 40-50 HP models, refuting lack of lubrication as the cause for one specific case.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\3\ scan0314 | |
| Date | 24th December 1924 | |
| X9430 H2/TB/24.12.24 S/W. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Re:- 14-PK. and 40-50 HP. Steering Nut. I note your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/LG.19.12.24, and we must hope that the two cases of rapidly wearing steering nuts, namely, the one you mention in France and 14-PK, will prove to be the only ones, as their mileage compares so very unfavourably with what we are used to. The object of this memo is to put on record that, lack of lubrication in 14-PK. is entirely unthinkable. If there is one driver in the world paying more meticulous care to the constant and regular lubrication of a Rolls-Royce car than Henning Senr., I should like to meet him. As the car has never been out of his hands for more than a period of a weekend, we must rule out absolutely any question of lack of lubrication, or the use of the wrong lubricant. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} | ||