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Instruction memo for the production of 6 Overdrive Gearboxes and material specification for selector forks.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 99\4\  scan0201
Date  19th April 1939
  
428
To: BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /CRL {C. R. Lisson}
c.c. to RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
c. to Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /NS. {Norman Scott} 1/MG.19.4.39

B.5 - GEAR BOX

Will you kindly instruct the Works to produce

6 Overdrive Gearboxes to the latest L.O.Ps in accordance

with the Memo. By.4/N.17.4.39.

The selector forks should be Aluminium Bronze, with

contact pads bolted on.

These parts should be made from the material instructed

for 300 sets.

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /NS. {Norman Scott}
  
  
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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