Letter to Rolls Royce of America regarding the potential supply and production difficulty of fabric friction discs for damping flywheels.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 66\4\ scan0106 | |
| Date | 16th March 1928 | |
| c. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X8300 16th. March 1928. BY17/G.16.3.28. Messrs. Rolls Royce of America, Inc. Springfield, Mass. Dear Sirs, FABRIC FRICTION DISCS FOR DAMPING FLYWHEEL. Referring to your letter in which you pointed out that you think you have found a source of supply for these pieces, which would be produced in the first place as a woven annular ring, we are of course intensely interested in this matter, and would like to have a number of discs, say a gross, immediately they are available. The question of weaving a form of this description has always been a difficult one, andwe do not know of any one in this country who have laid themselves out to produce these discs without a join and without loose edges. Yours faithfully TECHNICAL PRODUCTION ENGINEER. FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||
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).