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).
Design and requirements for an apparatus to perform axle strain tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 74\4\ scan0133 | |
| Date | 6th July 1912 | |
| 166 x 380 Re Tackle for Axle strain tests. TBB1/L6712. Mr Royce 6.7.12. With reference to your note of July 3rd in which you suggest that Mr Bailey should make a rough drawing of an arrangement for testing axles, in order that you may judge whether it will be a satisfactory way of obtaining the information we desire, Mr Bailey will put this work in hand shortly. In discussing this matter with Mr Platford it occured to me that a rather different construction could be put upon Mr Platford's sheet to which you refer. 1. Mr Platford asks(") for hydraulic ram with gauge. 2. 40. 56 lb weights. 3. A number of angle and box sections, and also a pair of parallel strips. In requesting these parts he referred to them as being required for [Handwritten Signature: Haley Tackle] | ||