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).
Secret memorandum about rectifying incorrectly labelled photographs of gearbox failures.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\2\ scan0322 | |
| Date | 3rd May 1941 | |
| To Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} Copy to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}/Tln. S E C R E T 1153 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}5/ST.3.5.41. Gear Box Failures. --------------------- Replying to Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}/Tln.2/JH.2.5.41, we are sorry that the headings apparently got mixed up in the photographing. The first speed wheel of 30.G.VII and the second speed dogs off 4.B.50 were photographed with the wrong headings. New photographs of these two items will be retaken and circulated and will everyone concerned please return the faulty photographs to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||