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Request to strip a Packard back axle for inspection to inform the design of the banjo back axle for the Wraith.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 127\1\  scan0261
Date  17th January 1936
  
x1086

To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 23/KW.17.1.36.

Packard Rear Axles.

Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} has made a special request that we should strip the Packard back axle and lay it out in some quiet corner where he can have a look atit.

He is at the moment designing the banjo back axle for the Wraith, and badly wants the Packard information.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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