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 a confirmatory test on the silence of an overdrive gearbox for car 37-EX.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\2\ scan0170 | |
| Date | 11th February 1937 | |
| HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} 328λ Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}2/R.11.2.37. 37-EX. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} wants to get a confirmatory test on the silence of the overdrive gearbox. We understand you have a second set of the necessary constant mesh gears. Will you please fit these, and a new pair of Rolls-Royce third speed gears to box 7.HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}, and fit this gearbox in 37-EX instead of box No.8. The No.7 box will only stay in the car one or two days, after which No.8 will be replaced for the test on the soft splines. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||