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Photograph of a Layshaft with broken teeth from the gearbox of an Austin 8 HP car.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 124\4\  scan0054
Date  29th January 1944
  
Chassis 1045
To Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} from Wym {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} /C. Lee.
c. to Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
Wym {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} /C.Lee.1/OH. 29.1.44.
Austin 8 HP. - AFV.977.
Attached is a photograph of Layshaft showing broken teeth on 2nd speed gear as dismantled from the gearbox of the above car at a total mileage of 31,000.
Wym {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} /C. Lee.
  
  
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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