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).
Wear on thrust washers on a third motion shaft for a Bentley, causing a 10,000-mile test to be stopped.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\4\ scan0073 | |
| Date | 26th February 1934 | |
| File. X228 To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}1/MJ.26.2.34. BENTLEY. Re. wear of thrust washers on third motion shaft. We are very anxious to get the modifications to the gearbox as issued in Hdy.{William Hardy}1/HP.19.2.34. We had to stop the 10,000 mile test on 4-B-1V. owing to the wear that had taken place. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.W.Hancock. | ||