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).
Request for the manufacture of two types of end cutters and 48 cyanide hardened steel rollers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149\4\ scan0314 | |
| Date | 3rd June 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} 1263 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}8/JH.3.6.37. Will you please make me an end cutter similar to Ex.27711 but with an internal diameter of .602" ± ½" instead of the .605" as now made. Also another cutter similar to the above but with an internal diameter of .728± ½". This is for the high pressure pump. Both these cutters to be used with the bush Ex.27712. Also a further 48 S/Z/N cyanide hardened steel rollers. .430± ½" diameter. .098"/.095" thick a 3/16" hole in the centre edge of roller to be spherical .430" diameter. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/J.B.Dixon. | ||