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).
Trial of gravity-fed lubrication for a Spectre Dynamo Drive by using a modified spindle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 4\1\ 01-page401 | |
| Date | 28th June 1935 | |
| To RBC. Ha/Std.21/IGH.28.6.35. SpectreCodename for Phantom III Dynamo Drive. With reference to memo. Ha/Smth.22/IGH.19.3.35, we wish to try to use gravity fed lubrication in conjunction with a modified spindle to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1843, with a view to avoiding troublesome and expensive piping to the dynamo pinion bearing. Will you therefore please make a spindle to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1843 and fit same to No. 4 unit while it is in the shop. Ha/C.S.Steadman. | ||