Rolls-Royce Archives
         « Prev  Box Series  Next »        

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).
Wired message suggesting a logical cure for reverse by using specific bearing and bushing arrangements.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 6\4\  04-page073
Date  19th March 1926
  
-4- AJS1/DB.{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}19.3.26. Contd.

We have just wired R.{Sir Henry Royce} as follows:-

"WE SUGGEST LOGICAL CURE FOR REVERSE BY USING
"PARALLEL BALL BEARING SHAFT WITH OUTER SLEEVE TAKING
"ANGULAR BEARING UNDER TEETH AT REAR AND TESTING FOR NO
"END LOAD WITH VARYING AXIAL POSITIONS OF THE SIMILAR
"ANGULAR BEARING ON INNER SPINDLE AT FORWARD END.
"VARYING ANGULAR BEARING AT FORWARD END OBTAINED BY
"DIFFERENT BUSHES".


AJS.
  
  


Copyright Sustain 2025, All Rights Reserved.    whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble
An unhandled error has occurred. Reload 🗙