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With diagrams detailing design changes for front and rear drive joints and a coupling tube.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 76\2\  scan0111
Date  31th May 1919
  
To DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} from E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} -2- E3/G31/5/19 Contd.

the castellated type of drive, in which case the design should be altered as follows.

The front joint should be made with the simplest form of dust cover, thus -

SPLIT

the rear joint should be made with spherical location, thus -

The coupling tube should be as described for the fabric joints as regards different diameters, and coupling flanges.

Would you kindly send a fresh scheme to Mr. Royce, shewing the serrated form of drive, and the revised fabric coupling drive.

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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