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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).
List of four additional instructions for a chassis, concerning the brakes, clutch, propeller shaft, and gearbox.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 82\3\  scan0155
Date  25th March 1935
  
To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

x200a
(3)

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}16/KW.25.3.35.

5-B-IV.

In addition to what is already instructed for this chassis, will you please

(1) Chamfer all four front brake shoes 1" at both ends.

(2) Fit the Terraplane clutch centre EX.17693 just tried in 21-G-IV but incorporate a saw set .015, and of thickness shown in the accompanying sketch Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1854. Dn. in the O.O. is obtaining this plate which will arrive .080 thick throughout, neither cut nor drilled, which operations require doing here.

(3) Fit the Hardy Spicer propellor shaft supplied herewith.

(4) Examine gearbox for clicking noise in sideshaft.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}
  
  


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