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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).
Diagrams illustrating fretting on two types of rear axle couplings after a 330-hour endurance test.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 111\4\  scan0082
Date  31th October 1938 guessed
  
REAR AXLE COUPLING TESTS
DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATING FRETTING
AFTER 330 HR ENDURANCE TEST
RR TYPE
ENLARGED VIEW OF BURR CAUSED BY THE WASHER AT SMALL END OF RR COUPLING
COUPLING TEST PIECE BL 505 S/M
COUPLING TEST SHAFT BL 506 3/ZN
FIG I
BARBER COLMAN TYPE
ENLARGED VIEW SHOWING IMPRESSION DUE TO ENGAGING SPLINE
FRETTING (DUE TO BENDING)
FIG II
COUPLING TEST PIECE BL 504 S/M
COUPLING TEST SHAFT BL 507 3/ZN
BURRING AT END DUE TO WASHER
TORSION SHAFT BL 508 S/ZN
BL2218
R A L
  
  


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