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).
Standardisation, testing, and future design of 40/50 wheel carriers for the New Phantom model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 68\3\ scan0036 | |
| Date | 12th June 1925 | |
| X8600 TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Copy to EY 40/50 WHEEL CARRIERS. We are anxious to get a wheel carrier of our design standardised on the New PhantomCodename for PHANTOM I. We believe that our latest design of carrier - N. scheme 1836. - has stood up on a 10,000 miles trial. These carriers are fitted to car 9-PK., and you will notice that we have had the troughs now made in accordance with our suggestion shewn on N.scheme 1836. It should be appreciated that by making the trough thus, one has an exactly similar carrier to that on the back of the 20HP., namely, a central fixing, and two shoes to steady the wheel to prevent dithering. We think that this feature should be emphasised on the wheel carrier drawing, and that on any future test cars we should make sure that it is present before the car leaves, as unless we have this feature we realise that the wheel will dither. Would HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} please arrange to make this carrier part of the next 10,000 miles trials car, and let us have a report so that we can take the matter up with Sales, who we believe are anxious that the New PhantomCodename for PHANTOM I should be brought in line with Goshawk. Mr Royce has since asked us to design another carrier on rather different lines, obviating the necessity of a trough providing shoes, but we would still like one of the present a carriers properly fitted up and tested. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||