Rear axle failure during the 32-EX Test and a request for the reason.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\2\ scan0191 | |
| Date | 29th July 1937 | |
| GRY {Shadwell Grylls} See me Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 300a S/W {Sales / Derby Works} To Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re 32-EX Test. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 2/E29.7.37 Referring to the above, which has stopped owing to rear axle failure, I do not know whether you have yet had an opportunity of examining the parts that have failed but I should like to hear the real reason for this failure as of course one ~~really~~ regards it as rather serious. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||
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).