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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).
From France to London concerning a fault with a gearbox, specifically the second gear and selector shaft.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 1\4\  B001_X 100a-page153
Date  16th December 1932
  
84057.

To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
From G.W.H.

Hotel de France,
Chateauroux,
FRANCE.

16.12.32.

2.PER.II.

We have received you memo Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/MA14.12.32.
We are replying direct to London.

RE. GEARBOX.

Apparently something has, or is, going wrong with the second gear. We cannot see what it is from the inspection cover. There appears to have developed too much movement in the selector shaft, as we are knocking out the small soldered cap in the end of the selector housing.

We also have observed, as reported to you, that the change speed lever moves backwards and forwards when in second gear.

We shall be dismantling the gearbox before to alter the rubber blocks in the clutch, we will then drain the box and see whether we can find the cause of this extra movement.

GWHancock.

G.W.H.
  
  


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