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 construction and fitting of a rear silencer for the exhaust system on car 32-EX.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\2\ scan0417 | |
| Date | 2nd November 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} + 300a Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}14/MH.{M. Huckerby}2.11.37. EXHAUST SYSTEM FOR 32-EX. Will you please build up and fit to the above car one rear silencer to SK.5072, but using the present outlet pipe to the swan neck instead of the one shown on the drawing. The outside shell should be made in 20 S.W.G. mild steel nickel plated inside and outside and the centre pipe and baffle in 18 S.W.G. mild steel nickel plated. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||