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).
The risk of breaking a holding-down bolt by over-tightening or misusing a spanner.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 37\3\ scan 130 | |
| Date | 1st May 1918 guessed | |
| BY12/P28218. contd. - 2 - and putting the blame on the Mechanic over-tightening the bolt. At the same time if a spanner is misused it must be distinctly understood that even the holding down bolt itself can be broken by such treatment. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||