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Response suggesting ways to seal the change gear mechanism from the interior of Chassis 59-AL.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 47\2\  Scan089
Date  19th October 1928
  
Hm. {Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} c. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X417 BY1/G.19.10.28.

CHASSIS 59-AL. FOX. Hm {Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} 8/W.10.10.28.

We have no scheme ourselves to deal with this particular point. We appreciate the trouble, and would suggest that you obtain from Sales (either HO. or CWB) a made up sheet metal arrangement which is fixed to the floorboards and the frame in such a way as to cut off the mechanism from the interior of the chassis. One other way to deal with it would be to carry a wood block transversely across the frame fore and aft of the change gear mechanism, and then to carry a leather or rubber piece on the inside of the lever to join up the two wood blocks, and at the same time, so to speak, carry as a floor under the change gear mechanism fixed to the two wood pieces at each end and bolted to the frame with small bolts.

We would make a scheme for you, but unfortunately at the moment we are so full up with SS. {S. Smith} work that I cannot spare the men.

BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} By
  
  
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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