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).
Engine issues including low oil pressure, a seized dynamo drive bush, and an oil leak from the crankcase.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 4\1\ 01-page234 | |
| Date | 28th January 1935 | |
| -3- Hw/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}14/KW.28.1.35. As on previous engines, the oil pressure when idling with hot oil was very low. After running 15 hours, the dynamo drive bush seized up, but prior to this happening the gears are very quiet, there being no whine and very little rattle. The oil pump gears chatter badly. Oil leaked from the crankcase into the flywheel cover and presumably past the rear bearing as in this unit there is a definite joint between the lower half and the crankcase. It is only fair to say that we were running without the air intake and breather connections, but running under the same conditions on our previous units this leak did not occur. Hw/L.H.Swindall. | ||