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).
Proposal to omit the propeller shaft damper on production cars, sent to G.W. Hancock.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\4\ scan0071 | |
| Date | 18th November 1935 | |
| x764a G.W. Hancock, Esq., Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/KW.18.11.35. On your big bore car you are running without a propellor shaft damper. Instead you have a spring damped flexible centre to the clutch. We are proposing to leave the propellor shaft off on production. So far on the cars we have been running about here we have had no transmission rattles under these conditions. We shall be glad to have your confirmation that the job is O.K. on the car you have. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||