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).
Trial of a new vertical pivot axle fitted with castor pivots.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67\2\ scan0298 | |
| Date | 27th April 1927 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X847-0 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/LG27.4.27. VERTICAL PIVOT AXLE. We are anxious to try the vertical pivot axle fitted with the castor pivots, now completed - and balloon tyre disc wheels. We shall be ready for this axle on 98-NK as soon as it is available. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||