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).
Axle failures, noting they occur even with sufficient lubricant, and detailing efforts to reproduce the issue in tests.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\U\May1930-July1930\ Scan016 | |
| Date | 5th May 1930 | |
| -3- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/m.1/MJ.5.5.30.Contd. driver hears a noise he pulls up and puts lubricant of some sort or another in. None of the cases we have stripped have been short of oil, nor can one imagine a chauffeur observing oil leaks and being too s tupid to top up his axle. The failures on the dynamometer shew that *picking up* can occur with a plentiful supply of lubricant. Since we have never yet succeeded in making an axle fail under Experimental tests our efforts at the moment are concentrated on reproducing the trouble. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Ru. | ||