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).
Modifications being made to a car's dampers and fan pulley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5a\3\ 03-page227 | |
| Date | 16th May 1933 | |
| X5840 Hotel de France. Chateauroux. Indre. 16.5.33. To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} From G.W.H. 18. G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} IV. We are holding the car up to-day to fit the raybestos friction discs to the low inertia damper. The load on the damper when dismantled was 10 lbs at 17 1/2 Rads. We are at the same time dismantling the hydraulic dampers. The present glands are not a success and it is of no use carrying on with them. The glands with the increased load ie. 35 lbs are no better than the ones with 25 lbs. We are going to melt out the Beeswax and soak the asbestos packings with tallow leaving the pressures as they are. The packings appear to be too solid. It is probably wrong to press the packings too solid in the first place in a jig as afterwards they cannot conform to their own glands. Re the fan We are going to fix the larger driving pulley for the fan as the speed is too low when the engine is idling. This will make the engine part standard. G.W.H. | ||