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).
Gear cutting, chain drives, and engine noise in contemporary cars from competitors like Nash, Ford, Buick, and Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\2\ img145 | |
| Date | 17th February 1934 guessed | |
| V job. They are contemplating using it on their other Cars next year to save the wt and expense of the doubled wall Case which they have to adopt to get silence. Therefore it appears that Nash & Ford will be left to Champion the gear drive. To my mind the most significant fact is Buicks, because they certainly make a good job of gear cutting and yet the doubled walled Case stands as an admission that, even with the textolite gear they are using, they have difficulty in obtaining silence. The worst thing about a Chain drive is its appearance, which I dislike as much as anybody, but it is another Case where so much money has been spent on developing it that it can now be said to be a remarkably satisfactory product - Certainly on any car that I have driven - I have not heard a front end over here without getting out and putting my ear down to listen for it, whereas the whine from the Bentley timing Case Can be heard across the road. | ||