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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).
Requesting clarification on the interaction between the steering mechanism and brakes following a customer's query.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 73\3\  scan0240
Date  1st November 1924
  
49940
PN{Mr Northey}15/DN5.11.24.
TO Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
FROM PN{Mr Northey}
Two gentlemen today (brothers) who are undertaking the purchase of a car from us and who are also Engineers and keenly interested in the details of our mechanism, stated that they cannot make out why in the turning of our steering-wheels, the position of the long vertical connecting-rod or lever, does not have the effect of moving the cam and there-fore tend to put the brake-shoes on.
Can I take it that theoretically this does actually happen, but in practice the movement is so slight that the clearance is not taken up between the shoes and the drum ?
It is important that I am able to give these gentlemen a correct reply to their criticism.
PN{Mr Northey}
  
  


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