Confidential memo quoting a letter about spiral gear issues and a related secret engine project.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\4\ scan0168 | |
| Date | 29th November 1939 | |
| 12 ZEISS OPTICAL DIVIDING HD {Mr Hayward / Mr Huddy} TO. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from JNR. {Charles L. Jenner} 1097 29.11.39 CONFIDENTIAL Here is an extract from a letter that I have received from "someone" at Vauxhalls. " You will be interested to hear that one of our troubles is spirial gears on Camshafts. we cannot get results from cast iron yet. I am interested in this gear job for another project on a new and rather startling engine I am struggling with. Most of my work is secret now, but I have a shrewd suspicion that, strange as it may seem, it is not entirely unconnected with something being done in Derby at this time." [Red ink signature: Kenn E] | ||
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).