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).
Proposal and experimental setup for a returning spring on the worm tube for steering.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\3\ scan0163 | |
| Date | 7th April 1927 | |
| X5430 To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to BJ. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}12/M7.4.27½ STEERING GENERAL. X.7430 X.5430 X.8430 With reference to the proposed returning spring on the worm tube, we have suggested to R.{Sir Henry Royce} that he should allow us to rig up temporarily an apparatus from which we could expect to learn something about this spring, and send herewith N.sch.2394 shewing what we propose. We quite appreciate that it cannot be standardised but we think perhaps you may like to make it experimentally. To give a spring without a set-up in the centre seems to be comparatively easy somewhat as shewn on N.sch.2313, but when we try to provide set-up, (and this seems to us to be rather necessary) the whole apparatus becomes much more complicated. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||