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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).
Testing a new gear construction on buses and subsequent issues with the ring gear.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 136\5\  scan0141
Date  30th December 1926
  
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"(b) The next step was to try the new construction on busses, where a low floor combined with a big gear reduction was a great attraction. Here, with more offset to the pinion, heavier loads, and much greater mileage, they ran into trouble with the ring gear almost immediately.

Evidently Gleasons feel that they cannot do any more, either in passenger or commercial vehicles, till they have overcome this trouble.

As soon as we hear further from them we will let you know."

BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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