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).
Method for recording the sideways movement of a rear axle, known as scribbling action.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\4\ scan0169 | |
Date | 2nd December 1939 guessed | |
1097 . 13054 1015- SUSPENSION FILE. SCRIBLING ACTION OF REAR AXLES. Attached is a record taken at Vauxhall Motors of the sideways movement of a rear axle relative to the ground. This record represents a good car. A pointer on the axle close to a leaf spring made these records on this paper which was fixed to a board and covered with a sheet of carbon paper and then celluloid. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} | ||