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).
The necessity of balancing Silver Ghost wheels to prevent steering wobble.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 29\1\ Scan154 | |
| Date | 12th November 1925 | |
| EXPERIMENTAL REPORT. Expl. No. +457 REF Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/LG12.11.25 To FN. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} c. to BJ. BALANCE OF SILVER GHOST WHEELS. 7401 +457 As a matter of interest, we are sending you copies of reports dealing with this subject which were written 14 years ago. You will see by them that in those days complaints of steering wobbles due to wheels being out of balance were prevalent and as a result it was then agreed to fit balance weights to the wheels. Some of the tyres supplied today have the same amount of out of balance, therefore the necessity for balancing the wheels still exists. We do not consider we need make excuses or be ashamed of asking customers to balance wheels. There is more reason for criticising ourselves for ever allowing any cars to go away with wheels out of balance when the effect of it was so well known to us. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||