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 memo regarding parts for the chassis programme, including 6-cylinder engines and new gearboxes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\2\ scan0291 | |
| Date | 27th March 1940 | |
| 1260 HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} c. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}10/ML.27.3.40. URGENT EXPERIMENTAL WORK. We give you herewith the parts which are of number one urgency in the chassis programme. Actually, the 2 6-cylinder high power engines Nos: 1 and 6 have been required for some weeks to enable us to make a final decision as to the head and type of front end required on the 6-cylinder engines. B.60. No: 1. was actually instructed before the war. Of the remaining items, the new gear boxes are, of course, the most important since all our Experimental cars are running on obsolete pieces. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||