Letter requesting the urgent delivery of a set of bearings to reduce gearbox slack for a car undergoing French tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\2\ scan0193 | |
| Date | 18th March 1937 | |
| 328 Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Gry {Shadwell Grylls} 10/R. 18th March, 1937. F.O. Hickling, Esq., Messrs. Ransome & Marles Bearing Co.,Ltd., NEWARK-on-TRENT. Dear Hickling, Our Order Office is ordering a further set of bearings to reduce gearbox slack. One of these we have put up in size since the last order for convenience of assembly. Will you do all you can to get these to us quickly, as we want to fit them on a car starting on our usual French tests. Yours sincerely, | ||
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).