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 trial 'Clevite' bushes on the Wraith steering pivot pins and to create an arrangement drawing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 9\7\ 07-page155 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1938 | |
| To By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} c. By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} 650 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}3/AP.3.3.38 Wraith Steering Pivot Pins. We wish to try some "Clevite" bushes on the lower journal bearing of the Wraith pivot pin, and we attach Messrs Vandervell Products' prints showing the application of this. Will you please make an arrangement drawing, a detail of the bush, and instruct one set. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} | ||