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 collection and examination of a competitor's latest steering gear.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 153\1\ scan0143 | |
| Date | 11th May 1938 | |
| [Redacted] 1300 c. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} ------- BY.7/G.11.5.38. STEERING WORMS. When Commander Matravers was at our Works he suggested sending one of their latest steering gears, so that we could satisfy ourselves as to its efficiency, and that it was an improvement on what they had previously obtained, as the result of the time he spend in U.S.A. recently studying the problem in all its aspects. Will you please collect and examine the gear, as although we are equipping ourselves to make our own gears we ought to know what their latest schemes and efforts amount to. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} By | ||