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).
Request to drill the subframe girders to attach lead weights for testing frame jellying.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\8\ Scan344 | |
| Date | 25th October 1932 | |
| x7380 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les3/MJ.25.10.32. Ph2. STIFF SUBFRAME. Will you please drill the overhanging ends of the girders on the above subframe, so that we can attach lead weights. The object being to see if it is the stiffness or the inertia of the subframe which causes frame jellying. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/I.A.Leslie. | ||