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The design, cost, and production of wireless anti-static earthing adaptors and a proposed change to Wraith stub axles.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 63\2\  scan0320
Date  1st July 1937
  
HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale}
c. Ev {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} (Strikethrough)
c. Dav (Strikethrough)
c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wst.
c. By {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /TWD. {T. W. D’Aeith} (Strikethrough)

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Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM {Anthony F. Martindale} 4/R.1.7.37.

Wireless Anti-static Interference
earthing adaptors for front brake drums.

The cost of the design scheme for the above
has been given as about £2/5/- per car.

The following parts have been designed by
By {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /TWD. {T. W. D’Aeith} with a view to reducing this figure. Will you
please make the quantities stated, being enough for one
Wraith and one Bentley II car, so that we can try them:-

GB.2712 - 2 pieces
GB.2721 - 4 "
GW.1628 - 2 "

It seems to us essential that the end holes
in Wraith stub axles should be deleted, and that no such
holes should appear on B.III; we cannot believe that it is
cheaper to drill a hole and then block it up with a plug,
which has to be turned, drilled and milled, than to produce
the stub axle without the hole.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale}
  
  
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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