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).
Follow-up to a complaint report regarding a rattle in the gearbox.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 146\5\ scan0157 | |
| Date | 6th May 1939 | |
| 1245 W/P. To Sr/VA. from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}3/MH.{M. Huckerby}6.5.39. COMPLAINT REPORT P.214. We notice from the above Report that you have a complaint made by one of your Testers of a rattle in the gearbox. We should be glad to know whether this rattle was like a timing gear rattle, i.e. at certain speeds only when the throttle is open, or whether it was an exaggerated form of "clonking". Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||