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Requesting a Mellenite flywheel with a starter ring for testing on a rig up to 5500 r.p.m.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 85\2\  scan0119
Date  8th October 1934
  
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To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 8/KW.8.10.34.

Disc Flywheels.

While the rig on which we have been trying to burst a cast-iron pressure plate is still in existence we should like to run a Millenite flywheel up to 5500 r.p.m. The rig is suited to an 8-bolt flange. Can you please let W. Bell have a flywheel complete with starter ring for test.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
  
  
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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