Secret internal memo detailing a cable exchange with Cadillac regarding a Vee '8' flexible flywheel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\4\ img149 | |
| Date | 11th December 1935 | |
| Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} usa Sgr. and Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} [crossed out] c. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hy. {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} [crossed out] SECRET. Vee '8' Cadillac. We have cabled Mr Grylls and Mr Day as follows:- "Cable if possible to purchase Vee eight fitted flexible flywheel". and we have today received the following reply:- "Elliott Cadillac decided not to supply experimental flywheel but have provided drawings Grylls". E {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} /Lid. {A. J. Lidsey} | ||
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).