Customer requests for fittings and proposing a solution for driving a Kellog tyre air pump.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 77\4\ scan0053 | |
| Date | 31th October 1913 | |
| COPY. R3/P 31.10.13. To J. {Mr Johnson W.M.} from R. {Sir Henry Royce} Copy to E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} " " Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} " " Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} X749 We have customers wanting the following fittings:- Engine revolution counter. Ever ready self-starter, hanging on the front of the engine, a ponderous piece. Kellog air pump for pumping the tyres. We have been hunting over the parts of the chassis, and can only find a satisfactory solution for these, as follows:- That we make a special air pump for petrol tank, through which we can continue a drive, to enable the Kellog or ether air pump to be driven by a chain. That we fix this Kellog air pump on the opposite side of the chassis to the dynamo in a very similar position. That the Kellog and its driving chain be stopped by a jaw clutch, between the side shaft of the gear box and the chain wheel, so that when this pump is stopped, nothing more than the present parts are running. This scheme seems to be a wonderful improvement on anything else we have before found, in fact we have not up to the present found any method of driving such a tyrepump that we can fit, but we have considerable faith that this will turn out quite a decent piece of work. | ||
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).