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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).
Initial load settings on a steering component to mitigate steering wobbles and road shocks.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 73\3\  scan0031
Date  15th May 1924
  
B.R. 493A (40 H) (SL 42 12-7-23). J.H., D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}
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EXPERIMENTAL REPORT.
Expl. No. 9940
REF: Hsl/LG15.5.24.

set-up on the ball is 30 lbs.
On the 20 HP. it is 70 to 80 lbs.
On the 40/50 cars which have been running in France with the weaker buffer springs in the side steering tube, the initial load on the ball with balance springs has been 120 lbs.
From our tests so far, we think that in order to compromise between - steering wobbles, springy steering, and road shocks, the initial load on the ball will have to be between 100 and 150 lbs.
Further information in connection with this to follow.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

1804
MADE AT CROXLEY
  
  


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