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The use of Wraith plungers on the Phantom and discussing anti-rattle control springs.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 8\11\  11-page069
Date  25th February 1937 guessed
  
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the outer member. This reduces the clearance allowance of .050 for the engagement of the teeth to .025, which is too little.

Our suggestion is that we try the Wraith plungers on the Phantom.

As regards the anti-rattle control plungers and springs, the plungers are the same as the synchronising plungers, but the springs at the moment are not. There is of course no objection to trying the springs for the synchronising plungers in the control plungers, and we think this should be done.

E {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} /HDY. {William Hardy}
  
  
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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