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).
Request to test various strength springs for the side steering tube to evaluate performance against road shock and sponginess.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\3\ scan0425 | |
| Date | 11th June 1928 guessed | |
| (2) Considerable Do you think it feasible to let me have a set of springs which would allow me to vary the loading, so as to get some experience of the results of doing this over suitable mileage? The one other matter on which I wish to make up my mind definitely is the relative value in the steering of freedom from road shock, or absence of sponginess, and for this purpose I would very much like to have two or three different loading of springs for the side steering tube so that I can try for myself the effects of various strengths in the side steering tube springs as regards these two properties. If the standard loading is 1500 lbs, I would very much like to try a set of 1,000 lbs, a set of 2200 and a set of 3,000 lbs, which I think would give one a very good idea of the result of variations in this loading. Please let me know whether this could be arranged. CWB. | ||