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).
On an issue with the rubber fan belt wearing through an oil pipe on a 25 HP engine, and the implemented solution.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 55\2\ Scan205 | |
| Date | 3rd December 1930 | |
| x19b. To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}3/MJ.3.12.30. RUBBER FAN BELT ON 25 HP. We find on 18-G4, that the new scheme 1245 of oiling the Dynamo drive housing brings the oil pipe too close to the fan belt. The belt flinging outwards had almost worn a hole through the pipe. To overcome this trouble we have removed this pipe and taken the supply from the junction at the cylinder head of the tappet rockers. With this arrangement the pipe comes straight down and makes a neat job without fouling any other features. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} | ||