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).
Failure of a Vickers pivot and a cross steering lever during testing and arranging for their inspection.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 2\12\ B002_X168-page109 | |
| Date | 3rd June 1913 guessed | |
| Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}Hy{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer}7/L3613. (contd) 3. I should be glad to hear if Mr Royce thinks we should run a test as suggested above. I am sending to Mr Royce the Vickers pivot which we have broken as the fracture is very interesting. I will also send along with it a broken cross steering lever. The lever broke after 24 hours at the rate of 750 reversals per minute and the pivot in 42 hours 25 mins. at the same speed. | ||