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).
Continued report discussing flywheel 'flap' and its effect on bearing clearance and wear.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\2\ scan0244 | |
| Date | 19th July 1938 | |
| -2- BY.23/N.19.7.38 Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} ----------------- flywheel "flap", this would rapidly increase the clearance on No.7. bearing, and would effect in slightly less degree No.6. and 5, precisely as shown by the dimensions. The bearings do not appear to have seized but to have been literally worn out, and this would occur to our latest type of bearings if the car was run in third gear, close up to the critical speed of the crankshaft. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} [Handwritten initials 'By'] | ||