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).
Failure of fabric couplings on cars used for high-speed continental work.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 15\4\ Scan057 | |
| Date | 11th September 1929 | |
| X7305 To Ps. Paris. From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 2/MJ.11.9.29. FABRIC COUPLINGS. ----------------- We should like to know whether the fabric couplings are standing up on cars that are used for high speed continental work. Our experience has been that the little screws which hold the plates on the coupling fracture, and then the coupling rapidly disintegrates. If you consider that the coupling life is unsatisfactory, we have one or two other schemes which have given better results on testing rig, but we want to make certain that the present arrangement is unsatisfactory before we press for their adoption. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||