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).
Official order for main bearings from Vandervell Products Ltd.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\3\ scan0223 | |
| Date | 7th May 1938 | |
| 1020 To Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/MS. c. to G/JWH. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}1/JH.7.5.38. Will you please pass an official order to - Messrs. Vandervell Products Ltd. Western Ave. Park Royal, LONDON.W.3. for 2 sets of main bearings we have received for trial on a B.III unit. The order was given verbally and not by correspondence, their drawing number of this job being L.1076. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||