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Fitting of large pitch continuous gears into a new Phantom gearbox to test for humming.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 66\4\  scan0213
Date  23th October 1925
  
X 8310

RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

BY1/H. 23.10.25.

NEW PHANTOM(Codename for PHANTOM I) GEAR BOX, CONTINUOUS GEARS.

Having got the large pitch gears produced, it is well worth while fitting these gears into a gear box in order to ascertain whether we have overcome by their design the hum of the ground gear when running light with excess of oil on same.

BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} By
  
  
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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