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).
Instruction sheet detailing an investigation into steering wobble by modifying the side steering tube.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\4\ Scan109 | |
| Date | 8th September 1913 | |
| R.R. 238 (24 n) (XK. 356. 8.9.13) E.P. 4910. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. INSTRUCTIONS. 19 To Order No. H Customer's No. side steering tube, & the contact pieces packed directly on to the ball ends, thereby giving an inflexible connection. The wobble could not be produced at all under these conditions. We might mention that this car was despatched on November, 28th with the packing pieces used under the springs, after consultation with Mr Day. Another case which has come under my notice recently concerns Mrs Parker's Car, No 1780. This car is used largely on cobbled roads, which one would naturally expect to aggravate any tendency to low speed wobble, & we Signed This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work. | ||