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).
Resource allocation and the urgent need for design work on a single-cylinder high power head unit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 134\2\ scan0126 | |
| Date | 27th August 1937 | |
| By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} γ 1129 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}20/AP.27.8.37 SINGLE CYLINDER UNIT As previously discussed, we have two test beds and three testers permanently allotted to single cylinder and research investigation. To keep them usefully employed, // someone will have to be available to do some drawing. // Previously Psn., with one [REDACTED] assistant, did this work. At the moment the urgent job is to get the High Power head as designed by Jnr.{Charles L. Jenner} onto the single cylinder unit, so that we can be sure it is right before the patterns are made. Several radical alterations have been made from the dimensions which have so far given us the results. Attached is a programme indicating the drawing likely to be required in the immediate future. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||