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).
Request to manufacture parts for an experimental Borg & Beck clutch modification.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 129\3\ scan0270 | |
| Date | 29th May 1936 | |
| X1110 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth.5/KW.29.5.36. Borg & Beck Clutch. Will you please make us a set of parts GB.2314/6 & GB.1509 (3 off each). These constitute an experimental arrangement of adjusting nuts for the operating fingers of the Borg & Beck clutch, and we should like to get them on clutch No.15 on B-7 unit. The existing eyebolts willmodify. We should like your opinion as to the practicability of setting the fingers by this means when the clutch is installed in a unit. Will you also please make a set of GB.2313/5 & F.52101, which uses smaller internal and external nuts. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth. | ||