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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).
Gearbox technology, comparing silent second speed with synchro-mesh and epicyclic gears.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 179b\2\  img152
Date  22th November 1932
  
-2- Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/HI.22.11.32. Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}

Our silent second speed on the present gearbox would satisfy us for a period, conditions will then demand that we shall have a synchro-mesh second speed. Also, of course, we cannot afford to neglect the complete epicyclic gear.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  


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