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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).
Proposed scheme for clutch and flywheel lightening on the Phantom model.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 74\2\  scan0217
Date  21th February 1927
  
To R.{Sir Henry Royce} from AJS.
c. to BJ. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
4194
AJS1/M21.2.27.
PHANTOM - CLUTCH AND FLYWHEEL LIGHTENING.
X.8300
X.4194
In reference to your recent letter dealing with this subject, and the apparent success of OY's suggested serrated coupling in place of the universal joint inside the clutch, do you not think we might try a similar scheme when making the further lightening as asked for by yourself recently?
AJS
  
  


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