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).
Cost reduction suggestions for the Phantom III isolated gear lever, proposing material changes for shafts and bearing cages.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\1\ scan0333 | |
| Date | 14th February 1936 | |
| DI. from E/HDY.{William Hardy} c.c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Ps. RHG. Hy{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer}/FSH. GRY{Shadwell Grylls} x328 E/HDY.{William Hardy}/HP.14.2.36. Isolated Gear Lever - Phantom III. With a view to reducing cost, we suggest that a high brinell hardness should be used for the two shafts which bolt up to the pendulum lever on the gearbox instead of providing them with case hardened surfaces. The spherical bearings surface should come to no harm as the load on it is quite low. We should also like the ball cages for the change lever bearings tried in aluminium instead of bronze. E/HDY.{William Hardy} | ||