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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).
Extract discussing a new standard double thrust for the Gleason bevel gear and the conversion of existing cars.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 49\1\  Scan381
Date  22th July 1921
  
X4150

Extract from R10/G22.7.21.

X.3614. Re U.S.A.
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X.4150 They should also have by this time, the new standard double thrust for the Gleason bevel gear.
We are also trying various arrangements for an easy conversion of the present stock of cars with the Gleason bevels, the most promising being that the large journal bearing should take the over-run inward thrust of the bevel pinion.
  
  


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