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).
Extract proposing methods for weight reduction on a standard car's light axle.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 2\6\ B002_X 140 141 157-page100 | |
Date | 18th August 1916 | |
EXTRACT FROM R4/W18816 of AUGUST 18th, 1916. RE X.137 - STD. CAR ENGINE - LIGHT AXLE. "We should also make considerable reduction in the weight of the back axle by leaving out the middle bearing to the propeller shaft, and the aluminium casings, machining the inside of the bevel gearbox and other parts, to lighter dimensions, and by the use of back axle tubes having a straight taper bore, and external collars, instead of stepped sections." R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||