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).
Description of the mounting system for a power unit, using rubber pads and screws.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\4\ scan0093 | |
| Date | 30th September 1935 guessed | |
| (5) possible being let down. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} The power unit is carried in a very simple manner, the nose and tail standing on two single broad pads of rubber and the unit being steadied laterally by two inclined pads of rubber from arms projecting from the crankcase approximately in line with the flywheel, these pads operating in sheer, and having a virtual centre approximating to the centre of gravity of the unit. To prevent the engine becoming completely unstuck there are four little screws and nuts passing more or less loosely through the inclined pads and anchoring the metal plates on the engine to the metal plates on the frame. The side arm location is somewhat crude but it will be interesting to see how this mounting operates in practice. | ||