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).
New wheel balancing scheme to avoid the appearance of three masses.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 4\3\ 03-page64 | |
Date | 22th July 1926 | |
To EY. from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X.401 DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}4/M22.7.26. WHEEL BALANCING. This is to remind you that it is desired to try the wheel balancing scheme shown on N.sch.2048 the object being to avoid the appearance of three masses which one gets with the balancing scheme seen on 12-EX. [Handwritten] DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Nevertheless this was for the main, the scheme which was tried - satisfactorily with a range of lead & bakelite washers & a cylindrical body for well base - wheeled | ||