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Gearbox from the U.S.A and the plan to fit Maybach type clutches.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 6\2\  02-page114
Date  12th October 1931
  
Hel/AR/12.10.31 contd.

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With regard to the gear box from U.S.A. he was quite interested in this and would like to see same when it arrives. It was also agreed Derby should make a scheme to fit Maybach type clutches to the gear box we have on P.I. with helical 3rd. speed. one thing is definite, He is thoroughly convinced that we must make an early move on gear boxes.

He.
  
  
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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