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).
Requesting the production of an adapter for a wireless drive shaft to be used on Eagle engines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 37\2\ scan 152 | |
| Date | 26th September 1917 | |
| To Mr. Coverley from BY/RB.{R. Bowen} c. to EFC. c. to Mr. Hargreaves. September 26th 1917. BY/RB{R. Bowen}4/WH26917. X.3184. - ADAPTER FOR WIRELESS DRIVE SHAFT. Please receive herewith a sketch of the adapter for the wireless drive shaft. This adapter is intended to convert the standard wireless drive shaft E.9266, as used on all Eagle engines up to 900, into a shaft suitable for use with the loose spring drive, which comes in on engine 901. Two adapters are shewn marked A.{Mr Adams} and B., will you please produce half a dozen of each for submission to the Air Board. The sketch attached should suffice until complete drawings are prepared. It should be noted that it is proposed to cut off the existing shaft E.9266 by a point 2.000" + 50 from the serrated end. BY/RB.{R. Bowen} | ||