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).
Failure of rubber mountings for an exhaust system due to overheating.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\3\ scan0171 | |
Date | 28th May 1936 | |
X223? Wyman let me see actual piece Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} O.K. c. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} E/JNR.{Charles L. Jenner} E.7/HP.28.5.36. Exhaust System Suspension. Replying to your memo Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}16/KW. 25.5.36, we should be glad to know what form of rubber mounting you ran on an experimental car as when we used rubber on the original Bentley scheme it failed through overheating, due to the exhaust. The rubbers which failed were at the top ends of the links carrying the exhaust system, and remote from actual contact with the silencer or exhaust pipe. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||