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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).
Arranging to test a freewheel with a cancelling clutch on a 20 HP and an epicyclic 3rd gear on EAC.7.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 5\6\  06-page040
Date  20th November 1928
  
X5300.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R.{Sir Henry Royce}
c. to BJ. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}
c. to SG.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}

HL/M20.11.28.

EASY THIRD GEAR. AND GEAR CHANGING.
X.5310
X.523
X.5300
X.7640

I have arranged with DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} that we will try the freewheel with the cancelling clutch on the 20 HP. and the epicyclic 3rd. gear on EAC.7.

R.{Sir Henry Royce}
  
  


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