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).
Instruction to modify the oil feed scoop on the Phantom III Rig Gearbox to reduce oil supply.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\1\ scan0238 | |
| Date | 22th November 1935 | |
| X 328 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} c.c. to W. Bell: c.c. to Hdy.{William Hardy} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}12/KW.22.11.35. Phantom III Rig Gearbox. The modifications which you made recently to the oil feed scheme to N.Sch.4668 have approximately trebled the amount of oil supplied. We now wish to reduce the length of the scoop on the 3rd motion shaft still further. Will you please modify it as shown on the sketch below. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.J. Hardy. REDUCE TO 0.250 | ||