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).
Steel orders, Vulture valve springs, and automatic transmission technologies.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 178\2\ img080 | |
| Date | 4th March 1940 | |
| Serial No 4 on page I propose trying them on your steel order, which, by the way had not yet arrived. (b) Valve springs. F.R.B. is an advocate of carbon steel valve springs, basing this on early experience with Wright engines at Wright Field. The promised prints on the Vulture valve springs have also not arrived. (c) Is much interested in the introduction of V.C.M. and Hydro here and believes Allegheny can help a lot in this Hydro is almost exactly the oil-refinery steel which has been produced in large tonnage by Timken and by Babcock and Wilcox Company of Beaver Falls. (d) He believes the present Chrysler fluid drive with automatic clutch, and automatic overdrive, operates better than the present Olds.Hydramatic. Recommends I should try it. Ill do so. (Perhaps I still tend to believe that wisdom begins and ends with C.I.) CY Copies to: J.M.Reynolds | ||