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).
Urgent instruction to the Works to manufacture a pair of side shaft gears using a Reinecker planer.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\1\ scan0042 | |
| Date | 20th December 1912 | |
| 522 Re Side Shaft Gears. Order Office 20-12-12 TBB1/L201212 Will you please instruct the Works to put in hand a pair of side shaft gears to our standard drawings but the teeth to be cut on the Reinecker planer, without fakement or modification in any way, that is to say, they are to be cut with Reinecker standard clearance. The gears to be hardened and the bosses slotted etc. to the joint. This job is urgent. | ||