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).
Proposal to return to the Woodhead clip for road springs and an associated design issue.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\3\ Scan221 | |
| Date | 10th October 1928 | |
| DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X3854 BY6/G.10.10.28. ROAD SPRINGS. Referring to N. Sch. 2734, I am afraid the proposal to return to the Woodhead clip involves us in a real difficulty, but we/will have to endeavour to negotiate with Woodhead to obtain a license to use this form on springs produced at Firths. Secondly, the centres for the clip holes are obviously too close together. You have overlooked the fact that the plate which slides past the bolts has to miss the corners of the nuts, so that the centres will have to be increased by .375". BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} BM | ||