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).
Requesting an order for 12 modified rubber bushes based on drawing EXS.1529.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\2\ scan0430 | |
| Date | 14th March 1939 | |
| 1020 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} c. G/JWH. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}2/MH.{M. Huckerby}14.3.39. In accordance with our memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}4/MH.{M. Huckerby}23.1.39, rubber bushes were ordered to EXS.1377. we have now modified the dimensions and would like you to order 12 off the attached drawing EXS.1529, with durometer of 70-75. If possible the original mould to produce EXS.1377 should be modified to make EXS.1529 rubbers. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||