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).
Noise issues with the Bentley V gearbox for B.V. cars and proposing solutions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 99\4\ scan0169 | |
| Date | 2nd January 1939 | |
| HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 428 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/R.2.1.39. BENTLEY V GEARBOX. The one section of any magnitude which has not been released for the B.V. cars is the gearbox. At the present moment the only unsatisfactory point about the small universal box is noise. We hope that it will be possible to get this little box quiet in time to instruct it for the first B.50 cars which are being made, but we may not be successful. It is, therefore, essential that we should have a Wraith box fitted in a B.V. car with the minimum possible delay in order to have an alternative for production. We should like to have a discussion with you, and with the D.O., to decide how quickly we can get the necessary instructions for this box cleared up. With regard to the car on which it can be tested, we suggest 7.B.V., which is at present fitted with the old large universal box. We shall have to have a car with a body on in order to get the tests through in time. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||