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).
Requesting the delivery of fractured shock damper components for examination.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 16\4\ Scan051 | |
| Date | 8th January 1929 | |
| RM.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} FROM DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} X7520 DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}2/M8.1.29. I intended to bring some of the broken pieces of the shock damper away with me, but left them behind at the last moment. Could you send them to us? We would like to see typical fractured pieces of (1) the aluminium casing - front shock damper, (2) broken levers - front shock damper, (3) the piston of the rear shock damper, (4) we saw at the last minute an inner lever of the rear shock damper fractured in the square: we should like to see that. Sent BHB 2 broken short levers and casing one shaft DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} [Signature] Br | ||