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 despatch a set of 25/30 main bearing shells to Walker Bros. Ltd. in Wigan.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\1\ scan0280 | |
| Date | 3rd February 1937 | |
| 102Q To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}8/JH.3.2.37. BEARINGS. Will you please obtain and despatch a set of 25/30 main bearing shells to Messrs. Walker Bros. Ltd., Pagefield Iron Works, Wigan. This set is to replace the ones which they scrapped by machining the shells after being metalled. We have written them stating that on no account must they do any machining, but simply metal them and return to us for us to finish. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/L.H.Swindall. | ||