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).
Request to detail and experimentally produce two sets of B.V. Front Shock damper casings in aluminium with different sealing methods.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 99\3\ scan0129 | |
| Date | 13th March 1939 | |
| 442 To By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/C1m.18/JH.13.3.39. B.V. Front Shock dampers. Will you please detail a damper casing similar to FB.4717 but having the maximum possible thickness of material below the cylinder bores. The material is to be aluminium. Please instruct two sets experimentally. One set should have oil seals, and the other rubber glands. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/C1m. | ||