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).
Design completion of a worm-driven back axle and associated chassis modifications.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 2\6\ B002_X 140 141 157-page120 | |
| Date | 17th May 1911 | |
| 17th May 1911 C.J. X141 17/5/11 H15/M17511 I have completed, with Hunt, the design of the worm driven back axle. It will take a week before it will be reasonably clear to bring to the Works. The design is of the simplest nature, but I think the proportions are good and the general arrangements are the best of the six or seven ways we have set the parts out. I am making Mr Spinney considerable work in arranging a chassis with inclined transmission suitable for this. In this chassis we are lifting the frame 1/2" to give a little more clearance for the front road springs and the inclined transmission raises the front end of the engine to such an extent that the bonnet will be | ||