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).
The dispatch of drawings for the redesigned Japan 3 crankcase and dynamo drive.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 103\2\ scan0257 | |
| Date | 28th September 1931 | |
| BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} FROM E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} E1/M28.9.31. X5000 C. to SG.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} WOR.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} J.3. CRANKCASE. We expect to post to you tomorrow drawings and blueprints which will supply the remaining information required to complete the crankcase design, upper and lower halves, for the redesigned Japan 3. In furtherance of this we attach herewith a print of LeC.2957. shewing the dynamo drive and scheme for lubricating the timing gears at the rear end of the engine. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||