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).
Requesting the fabrication of two experimental downtake pipes for an exhaust system.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\1\ scan0095 | |
| Date | 2nd April 1937 | |
| 323. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}14/JH.2.4.37. 32-EX Exhaust System. Will you please make up for us 2 downtake pipes in mild steel of 1.750" dia. These are intended purely for an experiment on the 20 M.P.H. boom and need not be sent away for "Aluminizing". They can be fitted when the car is next in the fitting shop. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/G.H.Whyman. | ||