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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).
Notification of updated blueprints and gear ratios for the Servo and Speedometer Drives on the Bentley 111 Chassis.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 98\1\  scan0119
Date  15th December 1937
  
BY/MS.
c. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
258B
DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}5/G.15.12.37.
FH
402.

BENTLEY 111 CHASSIS.

Please receive herewith blueprints of
G.CD.269 Servo and Speedometer Drives,
to which the particulars of speedo gears for a rear axle
ratio of 10/43 have been added.

The 8/33 rear axle ratio has been deleted and
particulars for a 10/41 ratio added, the speedo ratio of
25/9 remains, giving 781 speedometer revs. per mile.

FH

DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}

P.S. Please destroy prints sent with our Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}1/G.4.12.37.
  
  


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