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 produce a flexible coupling and packings for a Wraith III engine rig.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\1\ scan0261 | |
| Date | 19th July 1938 | |
| -2- BY/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}17/N.19.7.38 Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} The above is as requested by memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.10/MH.{M. Huckerby} 9.6.38 to provide a really flexible coupling, and to eliminate splines on the shaft, and the scheme also provides for a Wraith III. type of pump casing to adapt to the Phan.III. engine rig. The packings ExS.900/1 are as requested by memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.2/MH.{M. Huckerby}12.7.38, to give parallel misalignment between the pump and dynamo for test purposes. Kindly produce 1 set. BY/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design} | ||