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).
Cause of noisy speedometer flexes, suggesting that prolonged storage hardens the grease.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 165\4\ img315 | |
| Date | 22th May 1935 | |
| 46051. By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} From Ha/Wst. c. to Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} c. to JLE.{J. Lee Evans - Chassis Test Manager} c. to G/MT. Ha/Wst.5/MA.22.5.35. NOISY SPEEDOMETER FLEXES. We have been discussing the question of the above with the A.T.Co., with a view to arriving at some means of quietening speedometer and rev counter drive flexes. We attach for your information an interesting letter from Mr.Buckland in which he suggests that we should not hold flexes in stock longer than three months due to the grease hardening and presumably oxidising. Our opinion is that this is not a fundamental cure but you might like to instruct the Works to avoid storing these flexes too long. Ha/Wst. | ||