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).
Internal instruction clarifying a procedure for curing steering wobble by adjusting pivot inclination.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\4\ Scan111 | |
| Date | 8th September 1913 | |
| R.R. 238 (24 B) (XX. 356. 8.9.13) E.P. 4910. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. INSTRUCTIONS. 19 To Order No. 6. Customer's No. morning that, so far, she finds the steering has been made quite satisfactory. Mr Haldenby mentions that when Standing Order No 28 (re Inclination of Pivots) was issued the Repair Dept said that they had been curing wobbles that way for some time. This however is not correct. It is true that the Repair Dept for some considerable time — a matter of at least 2 or 3 years — have been attending to cars in this respect by setting the pivots at a standard inclination of 1/8", but the object of this was simply as a means of securing Signed This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work. | ||