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Experiments with a spring drive to address issues with splines, resulting in an extended smooth running range.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 25\3\  Scan278
Date  1st November 1927 guessed
  
contd :-

-3-

of splines which have given us trouble.

We are proceeding with experiments with
a car on the dynamometer.

We consider that wehave extended the smooth
running range on top gear by 4 1/2 m.p.h. with this spring drive.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /S.S.Tresilian.
  
  
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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