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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).
Continued note on testing chassis configurations to address high-speed wobbles on Silver Ghost and Phantom models.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 28\4\  Scan323
Date  22th August 1925 guessed
  
contd :-

-2-

the new steering box, larger dia. of worm, and (1) and (2).

(4) In the midst comes another chassis with Nos. (1) and (3) plus an hydraulic damper to act quickly enough for steering, but too slowly for the high speed wobbles.

The phenomenon of high speed wobbles is more difficult to produce on the Silver Ghost chassis than on the Phantoms. The reason for this we hope will be clear in the course of a few days.

R.{Sir Henry Royce}
  
  


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