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List of component specifications, material changes, and improvements.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 154a\3\  scan0306
Date  6th August 1937
  
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BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /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.

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BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /Mtn.
  
  
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).


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