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Discouraging the use of thick oil in gearboxes and back axles due to handling issues in cold weather.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 76\4\  scan0153
Date  29th November 1924
  
To HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} } FROM R. {Sir Henry Royce}
X3591
R6/M29.11.24.
X.4219
X.3591
I should discourage the use of thick oil in gearboxes and back axles.
The brown Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) which has come here is extremely difficult to handle when it is cold in the morning. Where the gearbox was filled I do not know.
This car is 4-G-11.
R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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