Request to despatch a Hardy Spicer propeller shaft to the makers for examination and lightening.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 87\3\ scan0038 | |
| Date | 14th August 1935 | |
| To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X237 HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 4/KW.14.8.35. In our specification of 6-B-IV we asked you to fit the Hardy Spicer propellor shaft which had previously run on 5-B-IV. We have now heard from the Makers that they can lighten this shaft about 3 1/2 lbs. Will you therefore please despatch it to them for examination and lightening. We hope to have it back in about a fortnight. HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} | ||
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).