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).
Lubrication system for the universal and sliding joints on a 20/25 HP experimental car chassis.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\T\March1929-December1929\ Scan279 | |
| Date | 26th November 1929 | |
| HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} SECRET. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EVL/M26.11.29. Copy to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} 20/25 H.P. LONG CHASSIS. ORIGINAL X5770. x5830. x3806. Thank you for HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/AD221129. We wish to revert to the hexagon oiling plug on the rear universal joint in the place of the Enots lubricator on this experimental car 14G-4., and in order to be consistent we wish also to replace the Enots lubricator on the sliding joint in a similar way. We agree that filling these joints with a syringe may not be as good as the use of a grease gun, but the lubricator on the rear universal joint has the effect of very much increasing the size of the pot in the floor. Since this car is to be used to demonstrate to Sales how low, and with what good appearance one can build a body on the long frame, we do not wish to have too many handicaps. Our feeling in the matter is that it will not be long before the front and rear axles are put into the centralised chassis lubrication system, and then there will be no need to carry a grease gun, in which case it will be necessary to either use a syringe for these joints, or preferably to include them also in the one shot system. We are more or less building this body on that assumption. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||