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).
Request for a weight analysis and diagrammatic sketches of Morris and Vauxhall engines and gearboxes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\5\ scan0176 | |
| Date | 30th March 1941 | |
| Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH. Instructions to Sharp Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}14/ML.30.3.41. 1373 MORRIS AND VAUXHALL ENGINES AND GEARBOXES. We should like a photographic weight analysis making of the engines and gearboxes of these two cars. At the same time we should like Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH. to make a diagrammatic sketch of the units, giving the major dimensions. On the gearbox these will be :- width of gears, diametral pitch, shaft diameters, shaft centres, and disposition of gears in the box. In the engines, overall length of block, overall length of crankshaft between main bearings, valve throat areas, conn. rod dimensions, valve lift, particulars of tappets and valves, fly-wheel dimensions, points of interest such as where the camshafts are fitted, etc., Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||