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 produce and fit bushes and thrust screws for a water pump test rig.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\1\ scan0266 | |
| Date | 16th August 1938 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} c. to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/W.Bell. 1269. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.12/JH.16.8.38. Will you please produce as soon as possible, two bushes to attached marked up print and two thrust screws to EXS.935. In each case however the material should be Ferobestos NW{N. Walker - Patents}1 oil impregnated - we will supply this. These pieces are urgently required for test on our water pump rig. Will you please fit one set to the water pump which we will hand you for the purpose and fit same to the test rig in the Tomb. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. | ||