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).
Letter to G.W. Hancock discussing issues with a narrow pin crankshaft and the options for replacement.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\3\ scan0308 | |
| Date | 20th May 1935 | |
| G.W. Hancock, Esq., Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. x 200 a Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn{Mr Robinson}/7/KW/20.5.35. We have sent your parts off. I cannot get a decision for the moment about sending another unit out. It is of course clear to us that it is very unsatisfactory for you to have to go on running the narrow pin crankshaft with .005" ground off one of the pins, because it will mean that the crankshaft is soft. The alternative is to send out another narrow pin crankshaft complete with a larger slipper wheel and Borg & Beck clutch, which we have prepared. | ||