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Specifications for various automotive components like the flywheel, steering, and radiator.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 101\1\  scan0128
Date  1st January 1936 guessed
  
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Flywheel & Clutch.

Will you please fit this up as on 21-G-IV.

Engine Mounting.

This should also be as on 21-G-IV.

Steering.

The specification is as follows -

To be of the Marles type as on 21-G-V, as follows :-

(1) 0.700 lead cam with Timken bearings 0.005 crowning.

(2) Roller to suit 0.700 lead with ball bearings.

(3) 9.437 pendulum lever.

(4) All features on N.Sch.4711 including rockershaft (rockershaft now being detailed).

(5) Set up loads to produce 1¼ - 1½ lbs. at rim of steering wheel - ¾ - 1 lb. due to cam bearings, remainder due to engagement of roller with cam.

(6) Three spoke steering wheel and controls to suit.

The cam, cam bearings and roller mentioned above are already in stock

Pedals.

As on 21-G-IV.

Petrol System.

As on 21-G-IV.

Radiator.

We agree that the specification given is the only thing that can be obtained quickly. Will E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} please note that we should like him to produce a scheme for a 52 m.m. Mark VI Marston block.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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