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 immediate build of an 8-cylinder engine and addressing a clutch facing deflection issue.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 119\4\ scan0183 | |
| Date | 17th May 1939 | |
| 1025 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/R.17.5.39. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} has asked us to build him an 8-cylinder motor-car. This means that we shall have to build another 8-cylinder engine. Will you, therefore, please instruct one forthwith. The fact that the clutch facing deflects will not worry us at the moment as we can make special pro-vision for this. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||