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Fitting whitemetal main bearings without liners to a Wraith III No.4 Unit, listing experimental part numbers.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 115\3\  scan0220
Date  4th January 1938
  
Swdl {Len H. Swindell}
COPY FOR FILES.
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell} 9/JH.4.1.38.

Whitemetal main bearings without liners between the halves were fitted to Wraith III No.4 Unit (27.G.VI).

B3 No. 2
The numbers for this job were.

EX.28080/1/2/3 Bearings caps. Another set

EX.28088/9/90/1/2 Main bearings. B3 No 3

EX.28087 Mod. to top half crankcase.

Several more similar sets are being produced in the experimental both in whitemetal and centri cast A.C.6.

RM {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /SWDL. {Len H. Swindell}
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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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