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).
Requesting to fit a new, lightened 20/25 clutch with reduced inertia to a B-7 unit for a 10,000-mile Bentley test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\2\ scan0088 | |
| Date | 1st June 1934 | |
| X212 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}7/KW.1.6.34. Clutch for 10,000 miles Bentley. We do not want to run a standard clutch another 10,000 miles. We should like to run the new 20/25 clutch but reduced in inertia. Will you therefore please fit to B-7 unit one of these clutches to N.Sch.3948, but lightened as shown on Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1416. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||