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).
List of component specifications, material changes, and improvements.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154a\3\ scan0306 | |
Date | 6th August 1937 | |
-2- BY/Mtn9/N.6.8.37. Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} ✓Brake drums - front and rear - in Chromidium instead of Millenite. ✓Radiator matrix using Mark VI. construction with .005 tinned waterway strip and .003 untinned airway strip. ✓Improved lubrication scheme to brake torsion shafts on rear axle. ✓Lubrication holes in the crankpins. ✓Rear axle pinion Acme thread clearance increased to an annular amount of .010 to .012. ✓Big end bearing bush and connecting rod. ✓Fixed dummy radiator shutters supplied by John Marston. ---------------- BY/Mtn. | ||