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).
Component alterations for a 10,000-mile test and a forthcoming material change for a suspension bracket.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 87\5\ scan0050 | |
| Date | 9th January 1935 | |
| -2- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}1/KW.9.1.35. The above list covers the whole of the parts affected by the alterations. Of the above parts the Drive Shaft, Drive Wheel, and Damper Piston can be made from existing pieces. Will you please put as many as possible of the above modifications on 5-B-IV before it starts its 10,000 miles test. We shall shortly be sending through instructions for a Suspension Bracket in Dural instead of Steel. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.J.Hardy. | ||