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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).
Reverting to a hexagon oiling plug from an Enots lubricator on an experimental 20/25 HP long chassis car.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 27\1\  Scan307
Date  26th November 1929
  
X3806
HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} SECRET. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EVL/M26.11.29.
Copy to - BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} 20/25 HP. EXP. LONG CHASSIS.
X.5770
X.5830
X.3806

Thank you for HSL/AD221129.

We wish to revert to the hexagon oiling plug on the rear universal joint in the place of the Enots lubricator on this experimental car 14-G-4, and in order to be consistent we wish also to replace the Enots lubricator on the sliding joint in a similar way.

We agree that filling these joints with a syringe may not be as good as the use of a grease gun, but the lubricator on the rear universal joint has the effect of very much increasing the size of the pot in the floor.

Since the car is to be used to demonstrate to Sales how low, and with what good appearance one can build a body on the long frame, we do not wish to have too many handicaps. Our feeling in the matter is that it will not be long before the front and rear axles are put into the centralised chassis lubrication system, and then there will be no need to carry a grease gun, in which case it will be necessary to either use a syringe for these joints, or preferably to include them also in the one shot system. We are more or less building this body on that assumption.

DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}
  
  


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