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).
Use of 'No-entering Slot' type bearings for the Hoffmann No. 335 size.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\4\ Scan056 | |
| Date | 20th October 1919 | |
| To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} c. to Bn.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} [crossed out] c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} [crossed out] c. to EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} [crossed out] Copy x.3516 Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}20/M20.10.19. BY8/P18.10.19. CHASSIS - FRONT WHEEL & HUB. Re use of "No-entering Slot" Type of Bearing for Hoffmann No.335 size. I am very please to receive your note which has certainly enlightened me much more on this job. I am quite in agreement with your note. Obviously if we had been fitting these slow type of bearings for so long and you had only instructed the newer type of ball bearing because you considered it an an improvement, I think it should naturally follow that we should not immediately proceed to pull ball bearings out of chassis which are already built up, but only to take advantage of the improved type that you had suggested, and incorporate it at the earliest possible moment. I trust that the design Department can see their way clear to fall in with your proposal. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} | ||