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Request to remove a Lanchester car engine and dismantle its fluid flywheel for test bed analysis.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 22\3\  Scan113
Date  4th June 1932
  
8440.

To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 3/KT.4.6.32.

LANCHESTER CAR.

We want to put the power unit of this car on the test bed. We also wish to have a direct coupling which will eliminate the fluid flywheel. Will you, therefore, please remove the engine from the chassis and dismantle the fluid flywheel until we get to a state where we can find something to which we can attach the coupling.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - 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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