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 issues with fibre bushes in road springs and magnetos, particularly in India.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 4\5\ 05-page027 | |
| Date | 2nd September 1912 | |
| COPY. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS:- "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES:- 476 (Four Lines). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. Mr Royce For C.L. when used should be made free & avoided in future. The trouble does not seem to be temperature but moisture & dryness should be made free while damp. All spring shackle bushes should be amply free. THR. DATE. 2.9.12. Road Springs - Fibre Bushes. TBB2/L2912 Mr Wormald has asked me to send you the following report from Mr Kirby of the Repair Shop, written from the Bombay depot concerning the use of fibre in India. "Fibre should not be used in this country if possible as it contracts and expands to a great extent. When used as bushes in springs shackles and springs it causes same to squeak after a car has run a few miles, however much they are oiled. N.B. Cars which we have fitted with phosphor bronze bushes have not given any trouble. Fibre when used in connection with the make and break of the magneto often causes the make and break to stick up. N.B. Standard cars in Delhi had this trouble." As previously advised we are waiting Mr Johnson's instructions concerning the correction of spring suspension bushes according to your This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||