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 spare parts to be sent by Air Mail for a car with a failed exhaust valve in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\5\ scan0137 | |
| Date | 21th March 1939 | |
| 400b To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl{Len H. Swindell} 5/ER 21.3.39. 8 B.V. Unit No. 5. An exhaust valve has failed in the above car in France, will you therefore, send out the following parts as soon as possible, by Air Mail. 2 - P 451 raised crown Aerolite pistons which Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl{Len H. Swindell} will supply. 2 - EW 1933 cylinder head gaskets which Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl{Len H. Swindell} will supply . 6 - i.e. set of EW 1853 exhaust valves. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||