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).
Delay in steel supplies for cushion springs and plans for replacements on customer cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 129\1\ scan0245 | |
| Date | 17th August 1937 | |
| -2- Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}4/AP.17.8.37 of a few days owing to supplies of steel for the cushion springs, but further supplies are expected within a week, this delivery will enable us to start using the new plate on Production at once and it is anticipated that the balance will be rapidly absorbed by replacements on customers' cars to deal with complaints. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler} | ||