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Proposed method for locking flywheel bolts on a 3 1/2 litre Bentley.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 85\2\  scan0029
Date  1st August 1933
  
X212,

To Sft. {Mr Swift} from E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer}

c. Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} By. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

E.4/HP.1.8.33.

3 1/2 litre Bentley Locking of Flywheel Bolts.

Referring to our conversation concerning your suggested method of dealing with the locking flywheel bolts by means of a screw press made in the form of a yoke to straddle the flywheel mounting flange.

We attach herewith print of LeC.3590 shewing the proposed form of bolt end for this locking.

Print attached for
Sft. {Mr Swift} Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} By. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

E. {Mr Elliott - Chief 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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