Issues, development, and production requests for B.III shock dampers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 99\3\ scan0113 | |
| Date | 3rd November 1938 | |
| 442 To HFS. from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} c. HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /WB. {Mr Brazier / Mr Bell} c. By {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /REB. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} 1/MH. {M. Huckerby} 3.11.38. SHOCK DAMPER TESTS - B.III. We are badly off for front B.III shock dampers. Several have been scrapped through failures. At present development work is being done by HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /WB. {Mr Brazier / Mr Bell} on an obsolete type of valve through lack of up-to-date material. Will you please put in hand one extra pair of dampers (additional to those required for chassis) complete to latest L.O.P: one is a spare, the other is required by HOS/WB. {Mr Brazier / Mr Bell} We have been asked for all experimental damper castings to be made from existing patterns having bosses for both side and top valves; this applies to these dampers. The final pattern for production will have the top valve boss deleted, as shown on the latest drawing. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} | ||
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).