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).
Modifications and test results for car GUB-5.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\2\ scan0175 | |
| Date | 12th March 1936 | |
| X260 To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}15/JH.12.3.36. GUB-5. The following modifications have been carried out on Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}'s car :- Clutch - New driving plate and clutch linings fitted. Gearbox - New 2nd. speed. " 3rd. speed. Other gears relapped. New Hoff. 340 bearings on 1st. motion shaft. Rear axle - New set of RR. cut gears. Test Report. The gearbox is now very good for silence, and synchromesh mechanism. The rear axle has a very bad period centred at 40 M.P.H. is very much worse on the over-run - no improvement on the previous set of gears. The works have been informed of this. This engine mounting requires new rubbers front and rear, the present ones are early American type, and it is now impossible to use the starting handle. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.Dodd. | ||