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).
Urgent internal memo requesting enquiries into obtaining Texolit blanks for timing gears.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\1\ scan0041 | |
| Date | 2nd June 1933 | |
| X411 To ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/KT.2.6.33. We wish to obtain some Texolit blanks for the 20/25 HP. timing gears. We understand that this material is made by the G.E.C., but it may be only made by the G.E.C. of America. We should be obliged if you would make enquiries. The matter is particularly urgent in connection with silencing timing gears on Bentley cars. We are sending you prints off the drawings of the gears we wish to get made in Texolit. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||