Request to obtain a complete gearbox for a Buick car as the original was scrapped during experiments on transmission clanking.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 124\3\ scan0369 | |
| Date | 31th October 1935 | |
| X 1049 W/S {Derby Works / Sales} - Hn. {F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 20/KW.31.10.35. Will you please obtain for us one complete gearbox to suit our Buick car, as we have scrapped nearly all its working parts during experiments on transmission clanking. 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).