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).
Clarifying steering build instructions for model 36-EX, concerning lead cams and rockershafts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 95\1\ scan0268 | |
| Date | 10th January 1936 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} <350 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}27/KW.10.1.36. Steering for 36-EX. Our previous instructions for the steering of 36-EX have specified a 0.700 lead cam. As we were under the impression that this steering was already built up we had not asked you to alter it to bring it into line with our desire to have only 0.800 lead cams. The steering is not yet built up, so will you please make it identical to 37-EX, except that it should have one of the stiffer rockershafts instructed in our Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}11/KW.18.12.35. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.J.Hardy. | ||