Correspondence regarding the reliability of friction devices, synchronizing brakes, and gearbox designs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 55\1\ Scan131 | |
| Date | 31th January 1932 guessed | |
| 4 and one feels that probably the friction devices as Wilson. & 2) Ex may prove too unreliable and the synchro.mesh in the form we have it or with epicyclic units gear trains & synchronizing brakes may prove sufficiently handy & more reliable because positive R PS Many thanks for your letter just received. I think you are making excellent progress with the new work, P3 gearbox & carb. J3 R. {Sir Henry Royce} Penguin. I will leave designers at WW to make good progress with Bensport(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley). which we want for next show. R | ||
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).