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).
Scheme to incorporate a Warner synchronising mechanism into the Japan III gearbox.
| Identifier | Morton\M19\ img040 | |
| Date | 14th March 1931 | |
| ORIGINAL To Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}l/MJ.14.3.31. X5310. We got BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} to go over the scheme for the Japan 111 gearbox to see if there was room in the box to incorporate the new Warner Synchronising mechanism shewn on Page 225 of Automotive Industries Feb. 14th. This scheme appears to us to be the simplest we have seen and if it gives an easier change than the latest 8 cyl. Chrysler, which has the last type of Warner gearbox on it, it must be quite as good as the Maybach. In case you have not a picture of the gearbox to hand, we are sending to you by the next post two photographs of the ones to which we refer in case you would like to forward one to R.{Sir Henry Royce} with a personal note. The reason we are putting forward this suggestion is that it seems the only way of utilising the existing Box drawn and it seems deplorable to waste so much careful design work without an effort to utilise it. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||