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).
Experiments to regulate the automatic clutch spigot lubrication before abandoning the system.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\2\ scan0076 | |
| Date | 24th November 1931 | |
| HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} X5480. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}3/M24.11.31. X5480 X872. AUTOMATIC CLUTCH SPIGOT LUBRICATION. ------------------------------------ With reference to HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/RM{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/AD201131., we suggest that we ought to make some experiments with this lubrication to see if it cannot be better regulated before we abandon it. We shall want this information for J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} 3. Reducing the aperture somewhere, possibly the drilled hole in the gearbox cover, or the hole into the shaft, we should have thought would have quickly restricted the amount of oil that enters. Could you carry out some experiments independent of an actual car to determine whether we cannot regulate the flow of oil. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||