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).
Effects of unequal braking on centre point steering and potential solutions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\3\ scan0289 | |
| Date | 2nd February 1924 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- Given centre point steering one can only see that the unequal braking affects the steering because of the inclination of the pivots in front elevation. The torque causing pressure on the pivot bearing I think acts at a different leverage on the top compared with the bottom bearing. The force being equal would cause a torque that would affect the steering. Will DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} kindly confirm this point. I can suggest no remedy. We should not be worse than others, and the only true solution would be a vertical pivot within the hub. Do any of the new designs that DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} and I found before I left promise to be worth changing to on EAC.2? R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||