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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).
Requesting the production of a set of Bentley main bearings for a trials car.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 115\1\  scan0352
Date  10th June 1937
  
To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} 1030 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}7/AP.10.6.37

BENTLEY BEARINGS

Will you please produce a set of Bentley main bearings in A.C.2. material (not die cast) as run 15,000 miles on 3.B.1V.

To be finished with the exception of the bore which should be left suitable to be reamed for .010" undersize crank.

To be aged by Hl. in part machined stage for 12 hrs. and an extra bearing given him for his analysis to confirm that the material is to A.C. 2 specification.

When complete despatch to the Paris Depot where they are to be fitted in the Paris trials car.

Will you please urge these as quickly as possible.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}
  
  


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