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 a change in production from steering box part number FB.3733 to FB.4362, and to also make a new bracket FB.4354.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 100\2\ scan0084 | |
| Date | 1st December 1938 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}17/MH.{M. Huckerby}1.12.38. B.V. STEERING BOX. In our memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}1/R.8.11.38 we asked you to make three B.V. steering boxes FB.3733 in aluminium. This part number has now been superseded by FB.4362, so will you please stop work on the boxes FB.3733, and make, in their place, three to FB.4362. Will you please also make three brackets FB.4354 in aluminium. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} | ||