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Standardisation and testing of an improved side steering tube for a 20HP vehicle.

Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\P\2October1926-December1926\  Scan111
Date  17th December 1926
  
TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}
Copy to BJ.

ORIGINAL
20HP. STEERING.

DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}2/M17.12.26.

X5450 (crossed out)
X5430

Referring to the side steering tube improvement proposed to be standardised X.5450, - we do not quite understand the purpose of this alteration, and suggest that it would be better, since a complete changeover of side steering tubes is intended, to make sure that the improvement indicated on N. scheme 2308, could be embodied as soon as the necessary testing had been completed. In order to do this all that is necessary is to revise F54584 on the lines of N. scheme 2328, attached. this would ensure that when the changeover of the side steering tubes was made complaints as to excessive joggle could always be dealt with by fitting the parts of N. scheme 2308.

As it is, if F54584, were standardised, and joggle complaints were experienced, it would be necessary to make a further changeover in order to get more flexible springs.

Though R.{Sir Henry Royce} has signed the standardisation sheet he did so on the understanding that if everything was not quite as we had understood him, we should stop the standardisation.

We are sure that he wants the joint to N. scheme 2308, as soon as possible, and we therefore suggest that a further proposal which you might consider is fitting immediately this joint, but using low stress springs having exactly the characteristics of F54584, as shewn on N. scheme 2329, also herewith, to enable you to get cars on the road. Then, on completion of the tests on N. scheme 2308, all that would be necessary would be to change the springs. The suitability of this suggestion depends on how far it is permissible to use the new pieces, viz: pads, pad guides, etc, without a 10,000 miles test, and its advantages are that when the complete changeover is made, viz: springs as well as tube, a minimum of scrap is actually made. It will be appreciated no doubt, that if either F54584, or N. scheme 2328, are adopted, the new pads and pad guides are scrapped with the spring changeover.

DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}
  
  


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