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).
Gearbox design, suggesting replacing Maybach components and referencing Mercedes and Voisin systems.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 56\1\ Scan118 | |
| Date | 24th April 1931 | |
| R2/M24.4.31 contd. -2- The gearbox can be just an ordinary 3 speed box, but anyway I should delete the Maybach jaws and fit ordinary ones. One feels it is the best scheme we know of both for handiness and reliability, and we know it can be made to work as in the May bach and Merceded, but they have had trouble the same as we are finding. We ought to find out what Voisin is doing. Our scheme must be made to work without touching the clutch except for the still lower gears. R. {Sir Henry Royce} | ||