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).
Departmental memo discussing the issue of steering wobbles caused by unbalanced tyres and the unsatisfactory method of fixing balance weights.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\4\ Scan016 | |
| Date | 14th June 1912 | |
| K.R. 471 (59/H) (X 737. 18.3.12) E.P. 1493. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 813 (Two Lines). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. Mr Johnson JPM for T.C. By FHR 16/6/12 DATE. 14/6/12 REFERENCE NUMBER EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}45/T14612 RE STEERING WOBBLES. The above question has been under consideration for some considerable timebut has not to my mind been settled satisfactorily, the chief trouble being that we cannot guarantee balanced tyres. To overcome the trouble of unbalanced tyres we are now fixing balance weights under the tyre bolts which I do not think is altogether a satisfactory job and is one which should not be adopted as a standard practice. I have been into the matter at some length with Mr Nadin to-day who has agreed to try and get a more satisfactory job made of fixing these balance weights, but at the same time to consider a more satisfactory method of curing these steering wobbles. The points to consider are as Contd. This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||