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).
Fitting and testing of a new lower axle ratio (10/43) for a Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\4\ scan0045 | |
| Date | 31th December 1934 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x 202 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}19/KW.31.12.34. Bentley Lower Axle Ratio: We have at the moment a lower axle ratio, 10/43, in the stores for the Bentley. Will you please fit these gears to an axle, and should you consider them satisfactory for silence we will submit them to a dynamometer test. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||