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 to F.H. Royce regarding a troublesome transporter machine with failing runner wheels due to lubrication issues.
| Identifier | Morton\M6\ img102 | |
| Date | 11th July 1927 | |
| For Beatty 11th July. 1927. F.{Mr Friese} H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Royce, Esq., "ElmsteadHenry Royce's home in West Wittering" West WitteringHenry Royce's home town, near Chichester. Dear Mr. Royce, Your note of the 9th instant to hand with sketches, copies of which have been made and circulated, as requested. Enclosed is a copy of sketches for your records. We are faced with another troublesome Transporter job, and before we spend any money in rectifying this one we wish to put the facts before you, together with our proposals. The matter is very urgent as we believe the Machine is stopped and users are in urgent need of it. Will you please reply by return, or if your reply permits, telegraph us. Enclosed is a Photograph No. 743 of the actual Machine taken in our Shops; also Blue Print No. 8521 of the general arrangement of the Machine. As shown on the Drawing the Machine operates a small Grab, and there is no hook-block as seen on the Photograph. Our Order only covers for what you see in the Photograph and we did not supply or fix the Track and Conductors. The Track is a 13 x 5 RSJ and has one 19ft. radius curve. At one end of the Track an overhead traveller carrying another length of 13 x 5 lines up, and our Machine can run suspended below the overhead and operate as a 3-motor Crane. (Handwritten note: Not ours) The trouble is with the runner wheels in our Machine which have failed, presumably on account of inadequate provision for lubrication, only a quarter inch oil hole being drilled through the boss of each wheel. This is another of the four wheel curved track machines; but I would mention that we have nine of this type apparently giving satisfaction. The brass bushes have, of course, gone down and the axles will doubtless be damaged. The flanges of the Runners, particularly the Drivers, are destroyed. I may mention here that this Machine was designed and constructed in 1925 and despatched February 1926. | ||