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).
Responding to a query about the durability of a Wraith change gear shaft.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\11\ 11-page136 | |
| Date | 23th November 1938 | |
| 628 By/NS.{Norman Scott} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} c. HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}23.11.38. WRAITH CHANGE GEAR MECHANISM. Re your memo By/NS.{Norman Scott}2/G.19.11.38., as the change gear shaft in S/N has only completed 983 miles, we are quite unable to form an opinion as to its durability. We should have been able to take more interest in this matter had we been sent a copy of the original memo, and so been aware that such a shaft existed. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RJH. | ||