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 request for various bearing shells and blocks to be supplied to the Tin-Smiths shop for experimental production.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\1\ scan0107 | |
| Date | 2nd November 1936 | |
| URGENT. X1020 Sft.{Mr Swift} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}6/MA.2.11.36. Will you please give the necessary instructions in order that the Tin-Smiths shop be supplied with the following bearing shells in order that the Hoyt metal people may start on producing some Experimental bearings for us on Wednesday morning the 4th instant. At the present time the Tin-Smiths have no shells on which to work. Phantom III big end bearing blocks, 25/30 main bearing shells and shims, Phantom III main bearing shells and shims. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||