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).
Modifications to the steering column ball bearing housing in response to excess pressure.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 80\1\ scan0235 | |
| Date | 27th November 1920 | |
| To EY from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Copy to HC (1 print). Copy to LS (1 print). Copy to RHH (1 print). Copy to EFC. X4301 (1) DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}4/CB27-11-20. ---------------- Y.4301. Re Steering Column. X.3465 -------------------------- Replying further to your EY4/P4-10-20, we send he with two blue prints of "N" Scheme 654 shewing the proposed thickening of the right-hand ball bearing housing. We do not think that the left-hand housing will benefit by any thickening. It appears to us that the cause of this trouble is too much pressure per square inch on the ball bearing housing. A thin sleeve would slightly reduce this pressure but not enough to be any real benefit, we think. What appears to be required is a larger ball bearing, but we think this is too much of an alteration to be considered at the present time, especially when we are contemplating further modifications to the steering in connection with the fracture of steering box shafts etc.. [STAMP: C RECEIVED NOV 30] DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||