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).
Letter detailing vehicle faults including a steering box, a wheel locking rim, and a broken spring.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan229 | |
| Date | 1st May 1922 | |
| Gustave Fève Grand Hôtel de l'Ouest Laval, le 1st May 1922. OMNIBUS DE L'HÔTEL À TOUS LES TRAINS CHAUFFAGE CENTRAL CHAMBRES AVEC EAU COURANTE & SALONS POUR FAMILLES SALLE DE BAINS TABLE D'HÔTE TELEPHONE 56 Dear Mr Haldenby, I received your note this morning & informed P. Madd: about the special insurance policies. Well on the 28th (Friday), we built up steering box, after having a rather long job fitting nut to worm, which was very tight, after this we took car out & ran 125 1/2 miles, 29th 400 miles act: the type locking rim of disc wheel came off causing a good bust, Maddock was on the car at lunch time, he don't know exactly how it happened but I think it might have been caused through a slow puncture allowing the rim to spring off, through tyre being deflated, the locking rims are not really a good fit. Yesterday 30th apl: the top leaf of O.S.F. road spring broke in the same place as 58II, but I see by your letter there is one | ||