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Weight comparison between the standard and low inertia flywheels for the 20/25 model.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 85\2\  scan0010
Date  1st March 1933
  
Bensport(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley) File X 212
To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} from RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
RHC {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} 5/BEL.3.33.
20/25. Low Inertia Flywheel.
We give below comparative weights of the standard flywheel and of the low inertia type flywheel fitted to C.10 Unit in 19-G-IV.
Std. Flywheel G.54938......... 68.750 lbs.
Low Inertia Flywheel Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 932..... 39.625 lbs.
Reduction in Weight.......... 29.125 lbs.
RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
  
  
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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