Confidential memo regarding the temporary installation of a condemned engine with a cast iron crankcase.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 107\1\ scan0081 | |
| Date | 24th July 1931 | |
| 87960. To Lp. {Mr Lappin} From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 9/MJ.24.7.31. GLN-60. We have put an engine with the cast iron crankcase in your car temporarily. We do not want anybody to know that you are using this engine as R. {Sir Henry Royce} has condemned it. Will you please arrange this. 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).