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 machine a second key-way on a test crankshaft due to high stress on the existing single key-way.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 25\3\ Scan288 | |
| Date | 11th November 1927 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} [Handwritten]: X639 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn{Mr Robinson}2/LG11.11.27. CRANKSHAFT TESTS. [Handwritten]: X634 [Strikethrough] [Handwritten]: X8010 Will you please machine a second key-way on the crankshaft which we are using for our tests at present. We think this will be necessary even if the taper is made 100% fit as at the present moment the single key-way is stressed up to about 8000lbs/sq.in. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn{Mr Robinson} | ||