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).
Request for a report on the performance of a clutch with Ferodo facings in Trials Car GAN.54.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 107\1\ scan0469 | |
Date | 4th November 1937 | |
W/S. To Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler} 560 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}1/AP.4.11.37. Re. Trials Car GAN.54 With reference to our Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}7/AP.31.7.37, this clutch has now been running three months with the Ferodo S.6777 facings. We should be obliged if you would kindly let us have a note as to its behaviour both in respect of smoothness on pick-up and also whether any slipping has been observed. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler} | ||