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).
Updated specifications for semi-floating axles following dynamometer testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\1\ scan0156 | |
| Date | 27th September 1938 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} c. By/CRL.{C. R. Lisson} 1015 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}3/MH.{M. Huckerby}27.9.38. SEMI-FLOATING AXLES. In view of the last dynamometer test all semi-floating axles should in future have Timken crown wheel bearings and alum bronze differential washers, and also bushes in those axles in which the diff. pinions do not run direct on the spider. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||