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).
Follow-up letter from Associated Transmissions Limited regarding an Easy Gear Change system test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 128\2\ scan0012 | |
| Date | 24th January 1931 | |
| Telephone: SLOANE 6217, 6218, 6219. Home Telegraphic Address: "SANDBERG, SOWEST, LONDON" Telegrams from abroad: "SANDBERG, LONDON" X2200. ASSOCIATED TRANSMISSIONS LIMITED. (PROPRIETORS OF HUMFREY-SANDBERG & GEARLESS TRANSMISSION PATENTS) DIRECTORS: J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} B. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} DAHLERUS (SWEDISH) CHAIRMAN. W. N. DUFFY, M.I.N.A., A.M.I.C.E. S. R.{Sir Henry Royce} HOGG, F.C.A. J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} C. W. HUMFREY, O.B.E. COL. THE MASTER OF SEMPILL, A.F.C., A.F.R.AE.S. SECRETARY: E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} S. ORMSBY, M.I. Mech. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} 40, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1 24th January 1931. [Handwritten note:] HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Have acknowledged and thanked. Offered address so we can write in future to you. EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 26/1/31 E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Platford Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby. [STAMP: RECEIVED 26 JAN 1931] Dear Mr. Platford, On arriving home last night, I found the enclosed pair of gloves in my car, and think they must belong either to Mr. Hives or yourself. I would like to thank you very much for the interest you all showed in the car yesterday, and the very thorough way you tested it. As I pointed out to you, any system of Easy Gear Change which is not free wheel, must necessarily be capable of putting severe shock loads on the transmission, and it has always been a very doubtful point in our minds whether it is not better to have an arrangement in which fixed wheel is not engaged after the gear change until the engine has been accelerated to car speed. We have tried out such a system, and if our Free Wheel Clutch is embodied as part of it, all the difficulties of the Salerni system can be overcome. We | ||