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Confirming a decision to use a B.III fully floating axle on the 1st experimental B.50, cancelling a previous specification.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 97\1\  scan0112
Date  26th January 1938
  
To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}

[Handwritten in pencil]: Y 200b.
[Handwritten in red pencil]: 40D

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 8/MH. {M. Huckerby} 26.1.38.

We send you herewith a copy of the notes taken at a Conference this morning, on which you will note it was decided to have a B.III fully floating axle on the 1st. experimental B.50. This, therefore, cancels the specification sent you the other day, reference Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 11/AP.18.1.38.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
  
  
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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