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).
Letter discussing creaking wheels and squeaking brakes with potential solutions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan288 | |
| Date | 25th May 1922 | |
| X4086 Hy{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} - Laval. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/LG25.5.22. We have had the Rudge Whitworth people over here with regard to wheels creaking. At first they said they had never heard of such a thing, but afterwards they agreed that unless great care is taken in fitting on the wheels and wedging them up, they were liable to creak. They have agreed to send their man Mr. Danials (I think you have met him) out to Laval so that you can demonstrate the creaking to him and he will be able to show you how it can be easily overcome. He is expecting to arrive, I believe, either on Saturday or Monday. We have wired you today suggesting that you should try and do something to the brakes to prevent them squeaking before CJ. takes the car away. I am sure that if CJ. took the car with the brakes squeaking as we know they can do, he would be fed up in a very short distance. We think this would be a great pity because we want him to have an opportunity of trying the car over a long distance. We think it might be possible for you to get some damping rings made at Laval. It would not matter if they were made in steel. As a matter of fact, those instructed for production are being made in steel. If you have any serious difficulty, you might use those on 7-Goshawk-ll and we would send on some more to replace them. I think that you personally should take the car as far as Paris so as to explain to CJ. or whoever is going to drive it, the condition of the car and also the points at which it should be lubricated, because if it is a new man, he will never find the lubricators. contd:- | ||