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).
Flexible bracket issue with the Phantom II extra cylinder lubrication controls and proposing a solution.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\3\ Scan198 | |
| Date | 17th December 1930 | |
| To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AJL. K7980. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AJL.2/MJ.17.12.30. PHANTOM II EXTRA CYLINDER LUBRICATION. (CONTROLS). The small bracket E.79939 (on the sloping portion of the dasaboard), which carries the bell crank lever connecting up the extra cylinder lubrication tap to the instrument board controls appears to be much too flexible. If the tap happens to be on the stiff side very considerable bending takes place on this bracket. This defect was noticed on 27-EX; it has not been apparent on previous cars fitted with extra cylinder lubrication owing to the taps being slightly easier to operate. It appears necessary to stiffen up this bracket, the most satisfactory method being to use a double bracket supporting both ends of the pin which carries the bell crank lever. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/A.J.Lidsey. | ||