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Enquiry into Bentley flywheels and the argument for a solid ring-out type.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 103\3\  scan0229
Date  22th October 1936
  
To HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Cricklewood
Oct 22nd '36

Bentley

I have made enquiries at Kingsbury re flywheels on Bentleys.
Their report is no flywheel has been changed during the existence of any trouble whatever.
This I feel is a strong argument in favour of the solid ring-out flywheel.

F.H. Hancock
  
  
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).


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