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).
Suggestion to fit flywheels to the shafts on the lapping rig to produce better quality gears.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\1\ scan0024 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1934 | |
| -2- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}19/KW.2.7.34. Concerning (3) We think that better results would be obtained from the lapping rig if flywheels were fitted to the shafts on which the gears are mounted. Gears are noisy because they do not run together with uniform angular velocity and anything which tends to make them run together more uniformly on the rig must produce better gears. We therefore suggest that flywheels should be fitted to the shafts on the rig; the flywheels being close to the gear being lapped and as large as can be got in. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.J.Hardy. | ||