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).
Instructing a hold on all machining and drilling of a centre flexible plate for a P.3. flexible flywheel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\3\ scan0229 | |
| Date | 24th December 1936 | |
| 312 1 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}8/AP.24.12.36. Confirming our conversation with WSC.{W. S. Cassel}, please hold up all machining and drilling of the centre flexible plate on the P.3. flexible flywheel N.Sch.4939. We have just received information from America, owing to which Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} is modifying the present drawing, to reduce the stresses in this plate. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||