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).
Proposed Scuttle & Dash Isolation scheme and its associated technical challenges.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 53\4\ Scan196 | |
| Date | 1st August 1928 | |
| c o p y. X4613 Ps6/RJ3. 8. 28 P/S "Whr{Mr Wheeler}". c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Derby. X4613 X.8500 (crossed out) I have received the attached report from Mr. Golovine concerning the latest Scuttle & Dash isolation scheme and blue print F.54650 which you are now proposing to send out to Coachbuilders. I agree with what Golovine says, and I honestly believe the scheme as recommended is not a solution to our difficulties. We might get a few coachbuilders to follow our views, but now-a-days it is getting more and more difficult to follow such schemes up. There are other troubles creeping in, such as the vibrating steering column which is really caused by the whip in the dashboard. If a semi isolation scheme is adopted, there is just sufficient extra support given to the dash to overcome a considerable amount of the column vibration. There is still another point; it appears that a certain amount of matchboxing will occur on the best of scuttles, and when this happens the relative movement of the steering is increased. Before finally deciding that the free scheme is the ideal, I should like my views placed before the Coachbuilding Committee. Technically I think they are correct. The dashboard offers tremendous resistance to any force applied across the chassis, but very little longitudinally. The scuttle has opposite virtues. Hence it would appear we should endeavour to combine them. Ps. | ||