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).
Issue with D.W.S. Hydraulic Jacks and a proposed solution involving packing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 139\1\ scan0089 | |
| Date | 5th March 1936 | |
| X166 To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/MN.5.3.36. Copy to Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Bowring. RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/Hollingworth. D.W.S. Hydraulic Jacks. Due to the fitting of a carrier on the axle nose for the transverse hand-brake rope to the near side rear brake, it has been necessary to place a brake adjustment at the drum end of the rope. In consequence the three-way connection on the rear axle at the near side, shown on LeO 4842, is insufficiently high to enable the end of the Lockheed flexible pipe to clear the brake rope jaw. We have arranged with RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/Hollingworth to deal with the cars in the course of erection in the Expl. Dept., by a half-inch packing underneath the pedestal, and we suggest that you will wish to do the same for production. The alternative would be to make a taller pedestal carrying the three-way connection, but as this would mean new dies, we presume you would prefer to use the packing, at least for the first cars. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||