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).
Page 2 of a memo discussing the need for a friction-damped spring coupling in the transmission line.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 138\1\ scan0038 | |
| Date | 24th May 1932 guessed | |
| -2- all our cars, XXX made, or to be made. EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} pointed out in a memo. to me that in the Silver Ghost days we fitted a spring coupling between the flywheel and gearbox, and which was friction damped. This seems still to be required somewhere along the line of transmission. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||