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 despatch of a new set of hypoid axle gears to Messrs. David Brown & Sons Ltd. for photography.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\1\ scan0320 | |
| Date | 13th April 1940 | |
| 1155 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} c. to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}2/JH.13.4.40. Axle Gears. Will you please despatch to Messrs. David Brown & Sons Ltd., Huddersfield. For the attention of Mr. Gardner. a new set of 0.650 hypoid axle gears of R.R. manufacture. These parts are being loaned to Mr. Gardner for the purpose of obtaining photographs to illustrate an article on gears. The ratio of the gears is immaterial. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} | ||