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Agreeing to a suggestion for using cross steering ball joints on the Wraith model, pending design department approval.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 153\2\  scan0342
Date  28th June 1937
  
To HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /RH. {R. Hollingworth} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}
c. By. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
c. E {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} /Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design}
c. E {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} /Ev. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork}
c. HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}

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Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} 1/AP.28.6.37

CROSS STEERING BALL JOINTS.

We agree to the suggestion in your memo HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /RH. {R. Hollingworth} 1/VS. {J. Vickers} 22.6.37, subject, in the case of the Wraith, to this type of joint receiving the approval of the Design Dept.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. 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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