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 the preparation of a Bentley crankshaft pin for a cold storage bearing test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\5\ scan0105 | |
| Date | 9th October 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X217 HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth.16/KW.9.10.35. We understand that you are having a Bentley crankshaft cut up in order to make a rig. Will you please have one of the pins fitted with a conn. rod with a Hall's metal bearing, using white metal clearance. We shall take this to the cold storage Works and see whether the bearing tightens up at low temperatures. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth. | ||