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).
Machine maintenance, gear lapping, and checking the alignment of crankcase bores.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\1\ scan0180 | |
| Date | 3rd February 1936 | |
| contd- -3- Sft{Mr Swift}/Set1/NA{Mr Nadin}3.2.36. These machines running in a welter of grease, oil and buffing paste. One of these machines of the battery is constantly in the hands of the Tool Room and when repaired another takes its place. It should be pointed out here, that we always lap the Spring Drive gear in its assembled state, i.e., as a complete unit. On the question of the boring tackle for the Crankcases and the alignment bars and tools for checking the parallelism of bores, we have taken the matter up with No: 4 Machine Shop and Mr. Bullough and Mr. Clarke are going into these points most thoroughly. Sft{Mr Swift}/Set. | ||