Flywheel experiments on a Bentley, specifying a change from an 11' to a 10' Borg & Beck clutch.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\2\ scan0150 | |
| Date | 4th February 1935 | |
| To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} +212 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 17/KW.4.2.35. Flywheel Experiments - Bentley. Further to our Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 20/KW.29.1.35. in which we have asked you to increase the inertia of the flywheel on B-9 unit, we forgot to add that this means reverting to a 10" Borg & Beck clutch instead of the 11" at present fitted. There should be one of these 10" clutches at present doing nothing. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||
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).