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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).
Instruction to examine the driving dogs on a chassis due to a drivetrain failure where the prop shaft rotates but the wheels do not.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 90\5\  scan0179
Date  20th September 1938
  
To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}

264

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}18/JH.20.9.38.

B.56.BN.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington}

Will you please examine the driving dogs on the above chassis and replace if failed. The prop shaft rotates but the wheels do not drive.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}
  
  


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