Letter discussing the Bendix turbo flywheel gear with an incorporated small epicyclic for an emergency low gear and reverse.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 156\4\ scan0118 | |
| Date | 11th December 1939 | |
| 1330 Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 10/MH. {M. Huckerby} 11th. December, 1939. C.L.Breeden, Esq., Messrs. Wilmot-Breeden Ltd., Eastern Works, BIRMINGHAM, 1. Dear Breeden, Thank you for your letter. Grylls has just handed me a copy of "Automotive Industries" of July 11th. 1936, which shows a picture of the Bendix turbo flywheel gear. You will notice that these people have incorporated a small epicyclic to give them an emergency low gear and a reverse. I still think it rather surprising that this device did not make some headway in America. Yours sincerely, | ||
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).