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 to measure the Young's Modulus of Elasticity for various crankcase materials.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 65\4\ scan0033 | |
| Date | 29th August 1928 | |
| To Hl. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Tsn. X8000 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Tsnl/LG29.8.28. COMPARATIVE RIGIDITIES OF CRANKCASE MATERIAL. X8000 X.3992 The materials for which we should like you to measure the Young's Modulus of Elasticity are as follows :- Grey cast iron. Hard white cast iron. Aluminium alloy (ordinary crankcase alloy). Our new light alloy L-25. 'Y' alloy (cast and forged). Duralumin (forged). Aluminium bronze. Any ordinary bronze. We presume that you will require machined test pieces; please let us know whether we can make them for you, and to what dimensions. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/S.S.Tresilian. | ||