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 modifications to a 25-EX chassis, including fitting a white-metal tail bearing and trialling a separate gearbox construction.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 169\1\ img164 | |
| Date | 2nd March 1931 | |
| To FBC. From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} XY 663 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}13/WT.2.3.31. Will you please fit the white-metal tail bearing to 25-EX, with a standard flywheel and clutch. Will you also prepare an arrangement for a right-hand chassis to try out separate construction of the gearbox. We suggest cutting off the gearbox in front of the 1st. motion shaft housing and supporting the gearbox on either side rubber mounted to the frame. We can then cut away most of the flywheel housing having only a small amount to carry the brake and clutch shafts, spigotted to the engine. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Grylls. | ||