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Requested modifications to a car's overdrive, propeller shaft, and engine stay.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 91\1\  scan0481
Date  25th February 1937
  
r 300

HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Smth.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Smth3/m.25.2.37.

37 EX.

We are sending this car into the shop,
will you please:-

(1) Remove overdrive box and fit 8HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
(2) Fit high inertia prop. shaft damper.
(3) Fit engine to gearbox stay.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Smth.
  
  
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).


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