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).
Feasibility and challenges of adding a shutter control to the steering column.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\T\March1929-December1929\ Scan014 | |
| Date | 5th March 1929 | |
| FROM R.{Sir Henry Royce} (At Le CanadelHenry Royce's French residence.) C. to BG. " DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} " HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} PN.{Mr Northey} ORIGINAL R4/M5.3.29. REC'D AT WW. 9.3.29. X7250 X3499 SHUTTER CONTROL. Many thanks for your suggestion of having the shutter control on the steering column. It is quite good, but it would require some very considerable alterations because the present inner tubes are too feeble and springy. The shutter control should be robust so that it can be finely set notch by notch, always coming to the same degree of opening in the same notch, a fault that many of our competitors suffer from. You will remember in the earlier days much adverse criticism was made to the multiplicity of our controls. Now nearly everyone has similar. The same was said of our complicated refinements in aero engines, now all aero engines are much the same, rather more so than our "Eagles". R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||