Instructions for preparing a sheet brass ring and mounting a clutch on a flywheel for testing flutter.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\1\ 01-page54 | |
| Date | 11th March 1938 | |
| To HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} , from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /MRC. c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell} c. HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /PS. c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Sym. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} MRC.1/AP.11.3.38 612 WRAITH UNIT W.III-I Please prepare a sheet brass ring to Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 505 herewith, on an 11" clutch which Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /MRC. will provide, (so as not to hold up running on the above unit.) This clutch should then be mounted on a standard flywheel in order to turn the outer edge of the ring. This will then be fitted to the above unit, first on the present standard flywheel, and afterwards with the semi-flexible flywheel Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 498. The bracket with pointed screws to test the flutter need only be a roughly finished job. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /MRC. | ||
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