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Test results for a universal joint showing continued oil leakage despite a vent scheme.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 105\2\  scan0079
Date  23th September 1921
  
X.4254

Extract from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 5/LG23.9.21.

UNIVERSAL JOINT. X.4254.

We have tested the universal joint with the Vent scheme but we find on the Test Bench that we still get the oil leaking out until the joint is dry.

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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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