Order for Lucas electrical self-starter motors for 'Eagle' engines and potential manufacturing issues with shafts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 37\2\ scan 046 | |
| Date | 5th October 1918 | |
| To E.H. from BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /JH. X3328 BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /JH3/DB {Donald Bastow - Suspensions} 51018. October 5th, 1918. .RE "EAGLE(Aero Engine)" ENGINES - ELECTRICAL SELF STARTER LUCAS MOTOR. X.3328. With reference to your enquiry re the above, I give below a copy of Mr Bailey's memo BY13/P26918 to Mr Mills: "Will you kindly place an order with the Lucas Company ordering 12 of their small type aero engine motors, type A.650 without reduction gear, which will be fitted up with armature shafts, as per dimensions given on blue-print E.16800. Will you kindly point out to Messrs Lucas that if they cannot produce the shafts to the accuracy required, that if they will complete the shaft drawing by adding their dimensions, we can make the shafts for them here and supply them to them in order that they might build up the armatures on same. The motors are required without end plates. BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /JH. | ||
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).