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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).
Gearbox lubrication performance on various gradients.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 87\5\  scan0007
Date  12th December 1932
  
-2- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Grx.3/MA.12.12.32. Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}

At gradients up to 1 in 4 1/2 oil is thrown by the sliding 2nd., speed pinion on-to the servo worm.
At steeper gradients lubrication is again by drip from the lid.{A. J. Lidsey}

The new gearbox is therefore no worse off for lubrication than the present one.


Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} GRY.{Shadwell Grylls}
  
  


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