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 to update Test Car 32-EX with a new starter motor gear ratio and a new type of cutout.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 62\1\ scan0367 | |
| Date | 4th March 1936 | |
| r6134. To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.11/JH.4.3.36. 10,000 Miles Test Car 32-EX. In order to bring 32-EX up to date, for its 10,000 miles test, the starter motor should have the new gear ratio of 18.5 : 1, to L.O.P.S. D.75449, and G.84357. We understand that the parts concerned are on production. Will you please arrange for this to be done. Would you please also have fitted on this car, the new type of cutout, having double contacts to RR. scheme 845, with contact springs made of 30 S.W.G. to D.54809. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||