Telegram discussing the disadvantages of increasing cam angle and proposing thirty-degree cams as a compromise.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 12\5\ 05-page073 | |
| Date | 25th January 1929 | |
| HIVES ROYCAR DERBY = S S BREAKING FIND ON INVESTIGATION THAT TO INCREASE CAM ANGLE INVOLVES GREATER TORQUE ON DIFFERENTIAL SHAFT AND THEREFORE SPRINGINESS AND OTHER DISADVANTAGES STOP PROPOSE TO USE THIRTY DEGREES CAMS AND LEVERAGES GIVEN IN HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /RM {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 1/G #181228 AS BEST COMPROMISE DO YOU AGREE = DAY + | ||
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).