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} | ||
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).