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).
Methodology for steering pivot tests and suggesting an alternative approach.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 2\B002_X168\ 00000001-page119 | |
| Date | 9th June 1913 | |
| Wcr. from P.H.R., Copies sent to: J & Ma. Re Steering Pivot Tests Ax. 168. I think that it is quite evident that the pivots will not break from the torsion, but I think that the reversal test was not the best test that could have been devised to prove whether the thickness at the point shown on the diagram was dangerous, because this thin place would be more likely to fail by road shock /s than by simple torsion developed by the reversal rig shown. I think that it would be worth while to make such a pivot extraordinarily thin, say one-tenth inch under size and test on the track as this ought to make us quite happy on this particular point. F.H.R. COPY. | ||