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).
Unnecessary repairs performed on a customer's vehicle to address a steering wobble issue.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\4\ Scan145 | |
| Date | 13th June 1914 guessed | |
| To J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} 2. R3/IB17615. COPY joints in the cross steering tube. In this particular case of Mr Wm. Whiteleys, the steering nut, the cross steering tubes, new springs, dismantling the steering pivots, supplying and fitting new pivot pins, top and bottom bushes, and dismantling the front hubs and supplying new ball bearings should not have been needed for anything that I know, even after 50,000 miles, unless the work was very badly done in the first instance (which is unlikely), or the work had been done when it was not necessary with a view to curing something. In the end, there is the adjusting of the pivot lean and the balance in the road wheels. These are the only two things that are ever necessary for steering wobbles. F.H.R. | ||