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 arrange for a spare set of higher ratio worm gears for a Supercharged Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 140\1\ scan0048 | |
| Date | 6th June 1934 | |
| x209 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth.18/KW.6.6.34. Supercharged Bentley. In view of the somewhat uncertain performance of the Graham Supercharger we wish to have a spare set of worm gears of higher ratio, in case we cannot obtain a sufficiently high boost with the existing arrangement. Will you therefore arrange, if possible, for a worm drive giving a step up of 4.34/1 to be made in addition to that already instructed. We shall thus have available two overall step ups, namely 5.76/1 and 6.50/1. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.Ll.Smith. | ||