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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).
Specification memo for the flywheel and clutch of the Conventional 'S' No.1 Unit.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 124\1\  scan0112
Date  18th May 1939
  
1044

To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}
c. to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth}
c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CT.
B. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}
c. to By/CS.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/WRC.1/JH.18.5.39.

CONVENTIONAL 'S' No.1. UNIT.

The flywheel should be to drawing Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}573 and the clutch 11" long with red springs. This specification will apply to all 3.5 bore 8 cylinder units unless at any time we wish to make a lighter flywheel for which a special rim would be designed.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/WRC.
  
  


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