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Experiment with a flexible drive between the flywheel and gearbox which resulted in gear rattles.


Identifier  Morton\M13.2\  img061
Date  29th May 1931
  
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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Grys.1/MJ.29.5.31.Cont'd. {John DeLooze - Company Secretary}

We are also experimenting with a flexible drive between the flywheel and gearbox P.2. When we replaced the Hardy joint on 26-EX by a steel disc gear rattles were immediately very apparent.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /H.Grylls.
  
  
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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