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).
Technical memo discussing potential clutch and brake failures and considering alternative transmission designs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 55\1\ Scan129 | |
| Date | 23th January 1932 guessed | |
| 2 [Annotation top right:] Continued nothing while on Top gear with Evidence of the heat suggest the latter, the heat & over tightness might destroy the lining But it may be that the brake is not big Enough for the work; evidence would say that the clutch would also fail, because this has not any more capacity for Loosing heat & and would have as much work to do, If this specimen of ours fails through under capacity It's our own fault. [crossed out: Wilson Standley] the larger Engines, because they start the car on their Epicy. G.C brakes. Before I heard of this being [inserted: hopeful & attractive]. Attractive. I had been working hard on a complete Train [crossed out word] [inserted: which is the best we have found.] after many years of thought (on & off times) & I was proposing to control this the same way, with a [crossed out: couple] side lever having simple forward & backward movement for silent idling & clutching up but if we cannot make the hydraulic & freewheel scheme work we should have to go. to | ||