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).
Request for a duplicate sketch of a modified flywheel disc, making it thinner and with a different radius.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 108\3\ scan0080 | |
| Date | 28th February 1939 | |
| file 612 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} c. to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/Fs.{F. Steele} c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}5/JH.28.2.39. Unit B.60.2. Ch. 29.G.VI. Please prepare on e flywheel disc to sketch Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}584 herewith (in duplicate) This disc is identical with GB.4417 except that it is thinner and the radius is .425 instead of .500. Please fit th the above unit as soon as possible. We estimate that this disc will be about 50% more flexible than GB.4417. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler} | ||