Request to fit a new Millenite flywheel and inertia ring to a Y-4-BB unit as a replacement for a distorted one.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\2\ scan0173 | |
| Date | 2nd May 1935 | |
| To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x212 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 11/KW.2.5.35. Flywheel for Y-4-BB Unit. We have previously asked you for the flywheel from B-9 to be fitted to this unit. We understand it is too distorted for further use. Will you therefore please fit instead a Millenite flywheel EX.12847 but fitted with the inertia ring EX.17549. The flywheel itself not to be thinned, but to be of .500 section throughout. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} | ||
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).