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The preference for a rigidly held axle over an equalised brake system that can pivot forward.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 67\3\  scan0287
Date  26th September 1925 guessed
  
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steering and an axle held rigidly in torsion would be preferable, from the driver's point of view, to a perfectly equalised pair of brakes on an axle which could be made to assume a forward pivot lean whenever the brakes were applied.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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).


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