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).
To Roy regarding the decision to discard fabric couplings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 142\3\ scan0152 | |
| Date | 5th March 1937 | |
| 1204. To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}14/JH.5.3.37. With reference to your memo. Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/MS.13/P.25.2.37. we do not think this type of coupling would be of any value to us. Actually we are discarding fabric couplings wherever possible. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/G.H.Whyman | ||