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Clarifying the correct terminology for clutch components on standardisation sheets.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 75\5\  scan0055
Date  26th May 1920
  
X. 3350a.

To EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} from R. {Sir Henry Royce}
Copy to CJ.

R5/G22/5/PD.
26 MAY 1920
RECEIVED

RE STANDARDISATION SHEETS.

With reference to standardisation sheet '[handwritten: Modification] to Clutch for Starter Motor Drive', this ought not to say 'Clutch' but 'Slipper Drive'. The Clutch we should call 'Jaw Clutch on the Side Shaft of the Gear Box.'

A T. please note

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
E.F.C.
  
  
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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