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).
Steering trouble on a Trials Landaulette, proposing tests by modifying the split rear springs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 80\1\ scan0059 | |
| Date | 28th January 1920 | |
| [Handwritten top center] X.3791. [Top left] PN.{Mr Northey} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Bm. c. to EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} [Top right] Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG28.1.20. [Handwritten top right] X.3791. X.1295. [Struck through] X.3922. [Struck through] [Title] X.936. - RE STEERING ON TRIALS LANDAULETTE. [Body] We have received a teelgram from Mr. Royce as you are no doubt aware, suggesting that the trouble with the steering is due to the split rear springs and he has asked us to carry out some tests. At the works we find it is difficult to get hold of a car which is sufficiently bad to experiment with. We suggest that we should carry out a few experiments on the Traisl landauletter; we could come down to London anddo them and should not hold the car up for more than a day. We should also have the advantage of getting the results confirmed by people who hve been used to driving that car. What we wish to do is to clip the split bottom leaf together so as to make it much less flexible. We have made the necessary clips and we could take the car on the road and change over in a few minutes, from the present XXX split springs to something comparable with the solid leaf springs. We think that this is the only satisfactory way of proving whether the springs have any detrimental effect because by the time one has changed the springs to the solid leaf the conditions will have altered. We alsomwish [Handwritten: X3791] to try another side steering tube with a different arrangement of buffer springs. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||