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).
Continued page of a report discussing vehicle stability on a curved track using an analogy of a belt on a pulley.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 80\1\ scan0099 | |
Date | 23th August 1920 | |
R.R. 199 (250T) (SD676 19-7-17) MP 18.865 Contd. -2- RB{R. Bowen}/G23.8.20. unstable under such conditions, but in this case the actual road track was only very little wider than the car track, and the curvature was very great, my impression being that it was something like a belt running on a hollow pulley instead of a crowned. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||