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 the production of a rear main bearing for a Bentley, to be sent to the Paris Depot.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\1\ scan0140 | |
| Date | 19th November 1936 | |
| 1620 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}23/AP.19.11.36. BENTLEY. Will you please produce a rear main bearing in R.R.56. together with shims of the same material. When complete, to be despatched along with a set of rods with R.R.56. bearings which you have, to the Paris Depot for Sr. The main bearing should not be final reamed but left for the Paris Depot to suit the size of their crank. The connecting rods are the ones which should originally have gone out during the last 15,000 miles. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||