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Servo-assisted gear changes and an alternative freewheel sideshaft design.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 6\2\  02-page073
Date  7th May 1930 guessed
  
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(11) You will see that with either of these servos we should change in sequence (which is preferable) and we need not touch clutch or accelerator and lose time on a hill (or we could interlock if preferred) and one might think this would be ahead of everybody, if we could get it made and proved before others steal a march upon us.

(12) For an immediate alternative for ls dies and occasional drivers, we have freewheel sideshaft which is not bad withour good gears. Get this tested and available for sale, to offer if they wish.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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