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).
Letter detailing the dispatch of replacement servo cams and plugs, and providing advice on a universal joint cover leak.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 180\M2\M2.6\ img016 | |
| Date | 13th August 1925 | |
| X5840 Expl: Dept: Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby, Angleterre. Hotel de France, 13th. Aug. 1925. Chateauroux, Indre, France. Mr. Hancock from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/TMW. 9-G-111. RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} has sent you a pair of servo cams of a larger diameter and 2 plugs for the servo shaft. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} wishes you to fit the former in place of those at present in use, but the plugs are only necessary if any oil should leak from the servo shaft. They are intended to prevent oil getting into the shaft when standing and being thrown out afterwards. A tin plug has been standardised, one of these will serve your purpose just as well if necessary. With reference to the universal joint cover leak reported upon in your daily report of the 9th.inst. We suggest, when the car comes in hot, you have the cover run back and if the cover is over-full, it will then drain out. We find that as long as there is no leak on the lubricator or the flange, that one of the small charges attached to the grease gun every 500 miles is ample for lubricating purposes and more than this should not be used. You will remember we had some conversation about this and should be very glad of your co-operation in dealing with this tro-uble. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/TMW. Tommy Warwick | ||