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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 and weight comparison between the Wraith and Leyland Cub gearboxes.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 148\5\  scan0440
Date  16th September 1938 guessed
  
Copy for Cost File 126@

COMPARISON OF WRAITH & LEYLAND CUB GEARBOX.

TYPE OF BOX.
WT. OF BOX LESS SERVO
MATERIAL COST LESS SERVO.
MATERIAL COST PER LB.
WAGES COST OF BOX.
WAGES COST PER LB.

WRAITH
90 lbs.
199.7
2.2
228.2
2.54

LEYLAND
130 lbs.
187/-
1.44
73.5
.566

Total cost saving from suggestions made by works on universal gearbox - 4/8 1/2
  
  


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