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).
Failure of an engine starter drive and the substitution of bronze plates with grey fibre.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\1\ scan0121 | |
| Date | 1st March 1920 | |
| X.3426 To DN from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} CR.{Mr Cra???ster / Mr Chichester} Copy to HH " " HF{H. W. Frost - Coachwork Inspector} " " SI. " " MK.{R. E. B. Meade-King} DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}15/CH1-3-20. X.3426 RE. FAILURE OF ENGINE STARTER DRIVE. --------------------------------- With reference to EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}1/F25-2-20 and EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}2/F28-2-20 we have recently suggested bronze plates in a slipper drive to Mr Royce and the suggestion has not been approved, but we have been instructed to substitute gray fibre.In view of the above I do not think we can do any more until some definite result is obtained shewing that fibre plates are definitely wrong, and bronze plates an improvement. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||