Request to machine rear spring bottom plates to drawing FB.2087 due to a stress failure on car 6-B-IV.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 87\4\ scan0150 | |
| Date | 24th December 1936 | |
| 246 To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Les.2/JH.24.12.36. 3-B-IVA Rear Springs. In order to overcome a point of local high stress which caused a spring failure on 6-B-IV, will you please arrange for the rear spring bottom plates FB.2621/2 to be machined to FB.2087 on the above car. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Les. | ||
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).