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).
Cracked aluminium wheel disc centre piece after testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\5\ scan0060 | |
| Date | 19th October 1937 | |
| W/S To Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} at Sales from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} 256 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}5/MH.{M. Huckerby}19.10.37. We are sending you under separate cover one of the wheel disc alum centre pieces which has cracked on tests. The mileage is 17,949 and this is the first sign of trouble experienced with the set of discs you supplied. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} | ||