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).
Letter to Joseph Lucas Ltd. regarding an issue with the epicyclic gear for starting motors.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 37\2\ scan 054 | |
| Date | 6th November 1918 | |
| Enl C. Y3328 EX. 7 NOV 1918 RECEIVED BY/HB{C. E. Harcombe}11/P61118. November 6. 1918. Wednesday. Messrs. Joseph Lucas Limited., Great King Street, BIRMINGHAM. For the attention of Mr Turner. Dear Sir., Re Epicyclic Gear for Starting Motors. Referring to the trouble which has recently arisen through the epicyclic gear fouling the gear of the motor and the question raised in your recent visit to these works, we enclose herewith one blueprint of our LeC.1020 shewing a modified scheme for the epicyclic reduction gear in the starting motor. Assuming this drawing to be to scale we shall be glad to hear from yourself whether any trouble is likely to be met in embodying this gear. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS ROYCE LIMITED: | ||