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).
Urgent request to complete one of four B.60 crankshafts to a specific drawing to suit a harmonic damper.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 124\1\ scan0109 | |
| Date | 17th May 1939 | |
| JOHN URGENT. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} c. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}4/MH.{M. Huckerby}17.5.39. B.60 CRANKSHAFT. specification In our memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}7/MH.{M. Huckerby}29.3.39 we requested that 4 cranks should be put in hand to EB.4085 (2.75 journals) leaving the nose end unmachined. Will you please urge that one of these be completed as soon as possible, machining the nose end to the original drawing EB.3867, i.e. to suit the harmonic damper. When complete it is intended to fit this into either No.1 or No.3 unit. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||