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).
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 | |
| contd :- -2- 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} | ||